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bolted, and I ought to have fired at him at once, but 

 thinking he would stop before disappearing, I reserved 

 my fire. He, however, did not stop, but went round a 

 rock and out of sight very fast. 



A napu head, manifestly over 20 inches, had now 

 been got, and as it was possible to get burhel elsewhere, 

 this sheep not being peculiar to Kashmir, I decided to 

 clear out of the nala. It was then about 2 p.m., and 

 as there was time to stop the camp from being pitched 

 at Rumbok, I settled to return to Zinchan at once, and 

 sent off the pony-man to Rumbok, to bring back the 

 tents to where they had been in the morning. 



On examining the smaller burhel we found that he 

 had been hit on the saddle, and the bullet going up into 

 his body, had killed him on the spot. His horns only 

 measured \^\ inches. I should not have fired at him if 

 I had known he was so small. The larger ram was 

 riddled with bullets, and his skin was quite useless. One 

 bullet had hit him on the horn, and split a good deal 

 of the end of it, the hole of exit being surrounded 

 by bad splinters. The length was just over 22 inches. 

 The tiffin coolie took up one burhel, Rupsang the 

 two heads, Abdulla the camera, and I the rifle, and 

 we went down the gorge and thence into the Tarkum 

 nala, and so down to Zinchan. The camp turned up 

 shortly after we got in, and everything was quickly put 

 straight. 



I had now got burhel and uryal horns, and was 

 fairly content. But for the uryal head there was no 

 head-skin, and I resolved to try and get one if pos- 

 sible before going away. I should have been glad, too. 



