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about three miles away. A similar ridge lay 

 about the same distance to the east, while to 

 the west lay the country we had crossed the 

 day before. The whole country was undulat- 

 ing and there were scattered clumps of wood 

 affording nice shelter for stags. We could hunt 

 in every direction and could not possibly have 

 been in a better centre. The ground was 

 hard and dry, and it was certainly the best 

 walking in the island. 



We started north about 9 a.m., and covered 

 a lot of ground, walking continuously until 

 6 p.m., with an hour's rest for a midday meal. 

 We saw four stags that day, and though two 

 looked shootable, yet after a long tramp in 

 each case we found the horns no good, which 

 was a great disappointment, for we had worked 

 really hard. 



We also saw for the first time two bands of 

 hinds, one of six with two small very young 

 stags and one of four. We came on the spot 

 where Millais had shot his forty-nine pointer 

 and Steve pointed with pride to the bones 

 still lying about, also to the scene of Captain 

 Lumsden's thirty-seven pointer, but it was a 

 poor satisfaction to me to know my pre- 

 decessors on the ground had got such fine 

 trophies if I could not find a shootable beast. 



Millais, Captain Lumsden, Captain Legge 



