IBEX-SHOOTING IN SPAIN. 



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a mile below. How human eye managed to detect so small 

 an object amidst so vast a chaos of broken ground, rocks, 

 screes, and scrub-clad patches, passes understanding : but 

 soon a long "wing" thrown out, turned the Hank of his. 



OUR FIRST OLD RAM— SIERRA DE GREDOS. 



position, and the noljle beast, aroused once more by the 

 rattle of a rifle-ball on the rocks, made a final effort to 

 escape, which was terminated by a "Paradox" bullet at 

 twenty yards' distance. This, our first old ibex-ram, 

 carried a handsome, massive head ; but its symmetry was 



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