CHAPTER VIII 



Trip to Egypt Stalking Wolves and Foxes in the Desert at Cairo 

 Riding down a Wolf Expedition to Hills near Suez after 

 Ibex. 



AGE 45. 



EGYPT, $oth January 1889. 



OUT at eight. Rode the donkey as far as third 

 pyramid. Find the wolves have dug up the donkey 

 or what is left. Saw the black vulture and eagle 

 at the horse, which is much eaten. Went along the 

 rocks and wounded a fox very badly with the gun, 

 both barrels very long shots, 70 yards. I looked a 

 long time for it, but without result. On my way home 

 saw a very fine long-legged buzzard, with a nearly white 

 head and white tail. A little farther on disturbed a 

 fox, which I watched go and lie up behind a cairn of 

 stones. Was in the act of stalking her when I moved 

 another who merely heard my feet. I squatted, and 

 when he turned round and sat on his haunches to stare, 

 he could not make me out. At last he gave it up, and 

 I got an opportunity and nipped up to a sandy knobby, 

 and got him as he came round going back to where he 

 had been lying. He saw me and bolted, but I hit him 

 very hard with the gun, and ran after him and finished 

 him with the 360 a spherical. A very fine old dog- 

 fox. Sat for the wolves in the afternoon and only saw 

 a lame fox. 



Thursday, 3 ist January. Disturbed by a dog in the 



