IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 199 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Early in January rny good friend the Sub- 

 Prefect informed me he had received a communi- 

 cation from Sarajevo instructing him to procure 

 a bartgiims, or hack chamois in its winter coat, for 

 the museum there. The word literally means " a 

 bearded chamois," and the hart, or beard, is the 

 long hair on the .withers. It is a wisp of this 

 which is used to make those ornaments for 

 shooting-hats, which most Englishmen have seen 

 when travelling in Germany or Switzerland. In 

 accordance with these instructions, he invited 

 Miller and myself to participate in the shoot, 

 which was fixed for the 18th. 



At five o'clock on the morning of that day I 

 was awakened from a dream, in which I was 

 endeavouring to stalk chamois with a field-gun, 

 by the booming of a salute fired near the Greek 

 church — said noise having evidently inspired my 

 dream. There was no occasion for me to get 

 up quite so soon, but nevertheless I jumped 

 out of bed in some anxiety as to the weather, 

 for it had been pouring in torrents the night 



