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CHAPTER XXX. 



I am afraid the reader will have had enough chamois- 

 stalking, so I shall not return to the subject again. 

 The other sport of this district, however, was not 

 interesting. Hare or roe shooting with beagles, 

 and a few days after small game in the polje, 

 completed the list. In this latter there were a 

 few partridges, quail, stone-hens, and hares. I do 

 not know that I need refer to any of those days 

 — for the heat and drought spoilt all chance of 

 sport — unless, indeed, to one on which I distin- 

 guished myself by killing one partridge and missing 

 three, a hare, and a pigeon right and left. One 

 bird to eleven cartridges was rather too much — or 

 rather too little — so I went home ; and I am glad 

 to be able to say that I found out next day that 

 the fault lay with a fresh lot of cartridges. Here 

 a word of warning may be useful — never buy loaded 

 cartridges in Austria. 



During our camp at Jezero the Eastern Herze- 

 govina was greatly excited by the news of the 

 death of a noted ruffian, which happened thus. 

 A portion of the Gacko garrison were engaged in 



