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The bullet had apparently glanced off a rib and gone 

 upwards, just grazing the side of the backbone without 

 breaking it. There was a small hole where it went in 

 and a large one where it came out, showing it had broken 

 up in its passage. Both were on the near side of the 

 backbone, which proved that the bullet had not gone 



Ibex (Ca/ra sibirka) (Front view of head on p. 149). 



under it. How it happened that the backbone was not 

 broken I cannot make out. The second bullet had 

 smashed the animal's right hind-leg. It had entered the 

 back of the thigh, broken the bone into pieces, and come 

 out in front through a large hole. Neither wound, 

 judging from its position, should have been at once fatal, 



