164 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



opposite, and in an evening the result of the day's 

 sport was telegraphed across. The house facing the 

 forester's was also built by His Highness ; but a year 

 or two ago the chase, which is Crown property, was 

 claimed by the present King, and the Prince has been 

 obliged to give up his favourite hunting-grounds, which 

 he had put into this perfect state, and maintained with 

 such liberal expenditure. 



The road hence leads on to the Hinter Riss, lying 

 in the Tyrolese territory. The Scharfreuter, upwards 

 of 7000 feet high, forms here the barrier which divides 

 the Tyrol from Bavaria; and beyond this again the 

 Grabenkahr lifts its massy shoulders 9000 feet from 

 where you stand. In the Hinter Riss all is wilder ; 

 the mountains are less wooded and more craggy ; the 

 dark green of the pines gives way to the grey of the 

 rocks, and sharper lines and more abrupt forms are 

 seen against the sky. 



On the morrow the forester returned, and he was 

 kind enough to propose that I should go out the 

 same afternoon, and try if I could see a chamois 

 towards sunset, when they emerge into the more open 

 places. At three o'clock therefore I and Xavier So- 

 lacher started. We crossed the Isar, and were at once 

 on the Grass Berg, which rises immediately over the 

 river. Though steep, the narrow pathway cut in the 

 side made the ascent easy enough ; and as we looked 

 upwards, or cast a glance almost straight down on the 

 boisterous torrent, the value of that little path was felt 

 at once : similar ones were to be found crossing and 



