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we collected the carpets, blankets, &c., and leaving 

 Googooloo on the platform to watch the body, 

 Chineah and I shouldered our rifles, and made the 

 best of our way to the bungalow, where we arrived 

 just as the first faint streaks of gray in the east pro- 

 claimed that day was about to break. After having 

 given orders to the " gooroo " to go with some of 

 the people and bring the skin, I turned in and en- 

 joyed several hours' refreshing sleep, tiffin being on 

 the table before I made my appearance, when I was 

 warmly congratulated on my success by several 

 friends who dropped in to admire the spoils. 



B gave a very good account of the ibex on the 



Koondahs, having seen two herds on the summit of 

 an isolated ridge overlooking the low country, which 

 he forbore to follow, on account of the weather 

 threatening fog in those altitudes. We determined, 

 however, to make an attempt, and ordered the 

 people to be ready to start with a tent before day- 

 break the next morning, we intending to follow 

 soon after. 



The following morning B and I mounted our 



nags soon after breakfast and sallied forth from the 

 glen of the Mala-mund, equipped in suits of drab 

 moleskin, which colour is the best adapted for ibex- 

 stalking, as at a short distance it is scarcely distin- 

 guishable from the bleak crags among which they 

 dwell. 



The pursuit of the ibex, although an intensely 

 exciting sport, is the most difficult of all deer- 



