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at where we lay. As we had evidently been detected, I sat 

 up, and with the Lee-Metford aimed at the male who was 

 looking straight at me, end on, about 150 yards away. 

 When I fired he bolted down the rise, and then up the 

 rocks beyond, where he gave me a broadside shot. I 

 put up the 200 yards' leaf and fired again, but without 

 effect. I then put up the 300 yards' sight, and had a 

 third shot, but he still went on. So putting up the 400 

 yards' sight I fired two more, pretty fast, one after the 

 other. At the fifth shot I had the satisfaction to see him 

 roll over, and catching his horns in a bush, lie still. I 

 then picked out another male, and after two or three shots 

 saw him lie down. Taking the binoculars I perceived he 

 was hit on the quarter. It was then fast getting late. The 

 nearer ibex was a considerable distance off, and to get 

 at him would have involved a long detour. We were a 

 good way from camp, with some dangerous ground to 

 get over on our way back. One ibex was dead, and the 

 other we knew could not go far. So we resolved to 

 return and to send for the horns on the following day. 

 This we accordingly did. 



The head of the ibex that had been killed was brought 

 in next day, and measured 35I- inches for one horn and 

 36J for the other. There were six bullet holes in the skin : 

 two small ones in the shoulder and ribs on the right side 

 (which was facing me when he was running across), and 

 two large ones, bigger than would be made by a 1 2-bore, 

 on the left side and lower down. Evidently the .303 

 bullets had gone clean through, but had mushroomed a 

 bit in doing so, and made large holes coming out. The 

 other two holes I could not satisfactorily explain. 



