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nacles to within a hundred feet of our level before 

 he had lodged in the rock. His bones were broken, 

 but his horns were intact, and he had been killed by 

 the shot and not by his fearful descent. 



His horns were eight inches long and the annular 

 rings seven in number, while his beard and coat 

 were in excellent pillage. After skinning him and 

 taking his head, we climbed to the next canyon where 

 the second dead goat lay, but just above him on 

 the slope sat a very large and very live goat. I 

 looked him over with my glasses, and the longer I 

 observed him the larger he looked, until temptation 

 was too strong and it was decided to add him to the 

 collection. A short stalk brought me to within two 

 hundred and fifty yards' range and, taking a rest, 

 one shot plunged through the animal's heart, and 

 stone dead he rolled past us and lodged a thousand 

 feet below. 



One gets the habit of using the binoculars upon 

 the landscape, even when he has finished the day's 

 shooting, and after shooting this goat I beheld a 

 tiny white speck against the blue on the sky line at 

 the very top of the rock pinnacles of the distant 

 summit. As I continued to look at the white 

 climber of the heights, he seemed to exert a hypnotic 

 influence upon me, and I announced to Baker that 

 while I had finished my shooting I had not concluded 

 the hunting, but intended to break the newly formed 

 " never again " resolve by climbing for that goat 



