IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 257 



CHAPTEK XXVII. 



Not long after our arrival I saw rny first chamois, 

 and, what is more, I saw some two days running. 

 The first day it was a single buck that the dog 

 moved on the Mushroom Eidge ; and on the 

 following day two chamois lying between this and 

 the Long Eidge, which saw me first and made 

 tracks. It was too early for chamois-shooting, so 

 I contented myself with observing their habits 

 and routes with a view to the future. On one 

 occasion my wife expressed a wish to see one, and 

 I was able to show her two within three hundred 

 yards at the end of a short walk. I did this by 

 taking her up a wood path which started near our 

 tent and ended just below the Mushroom Eock. 

 This was the quickest and easiest way to reach 

 the cliffs. 



A record of anything like all my successes and 

 failures at the Yelez chamois would be more than 

 any reader would care to wade through, so I pro- 

 pose only to describe three days of the sport, those 

 on which I got my first chamois, my first buck, 

 and my first solitaire. I may also refer to some 



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