XXII , THE WOUNDED URYAL 405 



walked for the rest of the day. Coming back it was too 

 cold to ride. 



The following: morningf we started when the sun was 

 well up, and were thankful to see that, though there were 

 clouds about, it did not seem to be snowing on the hills. 

 The wind too was less, and the cold therefore not so 

 great. We went up the ridges towards which the uryal 

 had gone the previous day, but up to 11 a.ai, had seen 

 nothing. So we sat down under a rock and had break- 

 fast. When this was over the search was continued, 

 and presently a ram was seen some distance down 

 the hillside. We made a detour, and on the way sighted 

 another. The going was exactly like that of the day 

 before, and there was the same difficulty in preventing 

 noise. The result, too, was similar, for when I went 

 forward to the rock we had been making for, and from 

 which I had hoped to get a shot, I found the animals 

 gone, and immediately afterwards caught sight of three 

 — evidently the three stalked before — right at the bottom 

 of the nala. Apparently they had been disturbed by 

 stones rolling down, and had bolted. 



When I saw the herd it was about 250 yards off. and 

 was going up a small side nala, so I lay down and fired 

 at the ram with the best head. The first two bullets 

 fell close to him, and he went out of sight to the left, up 

 a narrow gorge, the other two running on. I put up the 

 300 yards' sight, and the second or third shot with this 

 leaf up dropped the nearer of these two. Thinking 

 he was done for, I turned my attention to the other, and 

 fired a succession of shots with the 300, 400, and finally 

 the 500 yards' sight up, as he went higher and higher. 



