A GOOD IBEX 149 



We cut off the head, and leaving Dudson to skin him, 

 went back to where the cooHe was. " Abdulla took the 

 head and the coohe's load, and I took the two rifles, and 

 sending the man back to help Dudson, we started for 



Ibex (shot on 12th May). 



Length on curve, 42I". Circumference, 8J". Tip to tip, 21". 



(Measurements by Rowland Ward.) 



camp, which we reached at 3.30 p.m., tired with the day's 

 work, but well satisfied with the result. 



The skin when Dudson brought it in was too riddled 

 with holes to be worth keeping, and the meat, he said, 

 had been so cut up by bullets that it was useless, and he 

 had brought none back. Certainly the vitality of that 

 ibex was wonderful. 



