392 SPORT IN THE HIGHLANDS OF KASHMIR chap, xxi 



was visible, uncertain as to what I was. I tried to creep 

 nearer so as to catch sight of a good ram, of which there 

 were two or three in the herd, but saw that if I waited 

 longer the lot would be off. I was in a very uncomfortable 

 position on the shale of the hillside, and pumped with 

 trying to get up unobserved on the difficult ground these 

 creatures inhabit. So I was not surprised when, on 

 taking aim at the best of those I could see, and 

 firing, the bullet went over his back. The whole herd 

 turned and went off westwards, passing under the spot I 

 was on. I stood up and fired rapidly at the leader, who 

 appeared to be a fair-sized ram. The sun had gone 

 behind one of the hills by this time, and the light was a 

 little uncertain, and I missed. 



Then, as the leader disappeared round a rock, I aimied 

 at another, now about 250 yards off, and had the satis- 

 faction to see him roll over. He picked himself up, 

 however, and began moving slowly on after the herd, 

 which had by this time gone out of sight. We ran 

 ahead and got below him, and he showed himself on 

 a rock above us, standing still and looking down. I 

 climbed up nearer, the burhel moving off as I did so, 

 and we saw him next about 25 yards off, when a bullet 

 through the body sent him down the hill. When we 

 got up to him we found that the first bullet had caught 

 him just under the tail, and gone up into the body, the 

 last which had dropped him, having gone through from 

 side to side. His head was then cut off, and body 

 cleaned, and the meat having been put on the back of 

 the coolie, we started down the nala. 



When leaving Rumbok that morning we had given 



