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him tumble over and disappear in a nullah 

 below. 



The shikarrie was soon found after he had 

 brought up the spoils of ibex No. 2, and I des- 

 patched him on his third downward journey to 

 bring up those of the two big bucks just slain ; 

 and well content, I ere long set off for camp with 

 the trophies of the four animals. The heads of 

 the first two bagged were small, and in the case 

 of one of them the horns at their bases were 

 so thin that it was undoubtedly a doe, in spite 

 of the shikarrie's asseverations that all the animals 

 were bucks. The length of its horns, as viewed 

 from the side, had deceived me in this one case. 

 The heads of the two last slain formed handsome 

 trophies which I was very pleased to obtain. 



I remained in camp a month in all, but got only 

 two more ibex one a big dark buck with a slight 

 commencement of the saddle-mark, and the other 

 a brown buck. I missed some chances, however, 

 and during the whole time I did not once see a 

 real "saddle-back." The heads of the two best 

 were, however, little inferior in length to that 

 of the " saddle-back " previously mentioned, while 

 one of them considerably surpassed it in thickness, 

 and I was fortunate in obtaining such good heads 

 on the very much over-shot Neilgherries. 



On another occasion, upon the selfsame hill, I 

 was greatly entertained by three pretty little ibex 

 kids. I had disturbed a herd, which had bolted 

 and disappeared from sight down below, when I 

 heard, on some rocks in front, the mewing noise 



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