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the western ridge above It, the rams could nowhere be 

 seen, and it seemed probable that they were lying down 

 at our side of the nala, and were therefore invisible. So 

 we raced down to a hollow we saw below us, and here 

 the two shikaris stayed, while I crept forward. 



In a minute I sighted the two rams lying down about 

 100 yards off, and, as good luck would have it, with their 

 faces turned towards the opposite hillside and their tails 

 towards me. By the aid of a friendly bush of dapshang, 



1 was able to get some 10 yards nearer by lying on my 

 back and wriggling along feet foremost. Then turning 

 round I lay down at full length, resting on my elbows 

 and chest, and took a deliberate shot at the broad back 

 of the larger ram. As usual, I forgot to allow for the 

 fact that at 100 yards it is necessary with my .303, not 

 only to take the smallest possible amount of bead, but 

 also to aim well below the mark. The result was that the 

 bullet flew harmlessly over his head. Both jumped up and 

 bolted down the glen, and sitting up I fired three or four 

 shots at the better of the two before he had travelled 200 

 yards. At the last shot he dropped in his tracks, 

 and going up to him I found he had received two 

 bullets through the body, both of which had gone out at 

 the far side. On cutting him up, his interior was found 

 to have been badly damaged, one kidney and a part of the 

 liver being totally destroyed. The horns measured only 



2 8f inches by \^\ inches in girth, so he was not as good 

 a specimen as I had thought. After cutting him up and 

 leaving the meat under rocks till it could be sent for, 

 the two shikaris and I went on to see if we could come 

 across any more, while the pony-man went back with 



