BULLET AND SHOT 



to try the Iguindy precipices en route to the 

 former. 



We started in the morning and had a long walk 

 before we reached the crags for which we were 

 bound. When at last we arrived at the place, we 

 found a deep valley with precipitous sides running 

 up at right angles into the hilly ground on which 

 we stood, and there terminating in a wide bluff of 

 rock. In front, down the main valley, all was open 

 grassy down, but on the left, in a small intersecting 

 nullah, the precipitous hillsides on either hand ran 

 here and there as bare rock, and here and there 

 as abrupt slopes covered with grass and scrub far 

 down below into the forest-clad country at the foot. 

 First, from the left hand side, we carefully examined 

 the opposite slopes and precipices with our glasses, 

 but could make out nothing ; then, from the rocky 

 bluff at the head of the nullah, we examined both 

 sides with no better success, and afterwards pro- 

 ceeded to ascend a high grass hill, which rose on 

 our right hand from the nullah's precipitous edge. 

 We had accomplished perhaps three-quarters of 

 the ascent of this hill, when, under some short 

 rhododendron trees with low-hanging branches on 

 our front, D. and one of the shikarries saw a 

 branch, which had evidently been moved by some 

 animal, sway back towards us. We supposed that 

 a sambur had gone off, but we saw nothing, and 

 proceeded to complete the ascent of the hill. This 

 being accomplished, we were descending the other 

 side (and so going parallel to the course of the 

 before-mentioned nullah), when we came to a 



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