152 CHAMOIS HUNTING. 



his hands : all was done not only with princely magni- 

 ficence, but with skill and even taste, and the arrange- 

 ments were admirably adapted for a thorough enjoy- 

 ment of the chase. Up the steep wooded sides of the 

 mountains narrow zigzag paths were cut in various 

 directions, to enable the stalkers to move along more 

 stealthily when looking out for the stag. On the differ- 

 ent mountains snug hunting-lodges were built, where the 

 Prince and his friends would stay for weeks together in 

 the shooting season, thus avoiding the fatigue of de- 

 scending to the valley when each day's sport was ended : 

 from these lodges to the valley a mule-path was made, 

 by which each morning fresh provisions were brought 

 up. With his usual liberality he would allow a party to 

 take up their abode and stalk on one mountain, while 

 he remained on another opposite, and of an evening the 

 result of the day's sport was telegraphed across. 



The road hence leads on to the Hinter Riss, lying in 

 the Tyrolese territory. The Scharfreuter, upwards of 

 7000 feet high, forms here the barrier which divides the 

 Tyrol from Bavaria ; and beyond this again the Graben- 

 kahr lifts its massy shoulders 9000 feet from where you 

 stand. In the Hinter Riss all is wilder; the moun- 

 tains are less wooded and more craggy ; the dark green 

 of the pines gives way to the grey of the rocks, and 

 sharper lines and more abrupt forms are seen against 

 the sky. 



On the morrow the forester returned, and he was kind 

 enough to propose that I should go out the same after- 

 noon, and try if I could see a chamois towards sunset, 

 when they emerge into the more open places. At three 

 o'clock therefore I and Xavier Solacher started. We 

 crossed the Isar, and were at once on the Grass Berg, 

 which rises immediately over the river. Though steep, 



