1 82 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap. 



hill and searched the rocks that morning with our glasses, 

 and we never afterwards saw any of that exceptionally fine 

 herd, which had given us so many weary days' work. 



We accordingly came down again to where we had 

 slept, and after breakfast climbed up back to the neigh- 

 bourhood of our camp. Sending the rest of the men on 

 there, the shikari, a local coolie, and I waited behind 

 amongst some high rocks, and about 4 p.m. caught sight 

 of a fair-sized ibex lying where a stalk seemed possible. 

 We accordingly went after him over a series of ridges 

 and hollows, all very easy going, and quickly got up to the 

 ridge behind which he had been seen. On topping it, we 

 found him with several others going about uneasily. He 

 was about 70 yards off, and a bullet from the Lee-Metford 

 knocked him over. He recovered himself, and disap- 

 peared down the ravine. Following quickly we saw 

 him on the opposite side of a snow - slope, where a 

 bullet through the heart finished him. His horns were 

 not as good as they had looked, being only 3 if inches 

 long. 



On the 30th we changed camp, going up the more 

 northern of the two branch nalas above mentioned. 

 The camp went down and followed up the stream, but 

 the shikari, the tifiin coolie, and I went up by the hillside. 

 A long walk, over easy ground, brought us to some 

 rocks, where we stopped to examine the neighbouring 

 hillsides, and here we had breakfast. 



At 2,30 P.M. a small brown bear was descried grazing 

 on a grassy slope about 500 yards off. Until I saw him 

 actually cropping the grass like a cow or goat, I did not 

 realise that bears eat grass, and very curious food it seems 



