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into difficulties too and twice had to turn back on 

 their road, but they would go and bring the kael 

 in next day. And then came my husband to meet 

 me, with a lantern and brandy, and also the pony, 

 that they had found on the way, grazing by the 

 roadside and enjoying himself, and the troubles were 

 over. I know I slept without winking from 10 p.m. 

 to 10.45 a - m - nex t day, which wasn't so bad, but 

 I was not able to walk for some days. 



Nebra brought back the head and skin of the 

 white ibex. He only had one horn, so he must 

 have lost it in a fall or Nebra may have shot it off ; 

 to which he did not own, however, but the kael 

 certainly had two horns when I saw him last. 



The skin was made into quite a handsome carriage 

 rug : a panther skin in the middle with borders of 

 long woolly white kael outside. It was said, by 

 some faddy people, to smell very strong, and had 

 to be discarded, as no one would get into the car 

 with it but me, and I liked it. 



I shot one or two ibex and bear on this expedition, 

 and then our leave was up. On the way back, 

 when we were in boats on the Woolar Lake, one day 

 a very large fish was brought in by the cook, which 

 he displayed with great pride; we said we would 

 have it for dinner. But after our soup the meat 

 was brought next, so we shouted to him to know 

 what had happened to the fish. 



" The fish, sahib ? Why, the fish is such a big one, 

 it is the joint dish to-day, so I have sent the sahibs 

 the bif ishteak first." 



We knew that no beef was killed where we were, 



