300 IN THE LAND OF THE BORA. 



with a kid running or standing beside it, but in 

 the confusion of flight mother and offspring 

 frequently get separated, and the former, if the 

 biggest and darkest of the herd, is very likely to 

 be rolled over. Then the odds are the youngster 

 will die, not from want of the milk, which 

 anyhow ceases with October, but a kid without 

 a dam to show him where and how to seek his 

 food, and so forth, rarely survives the rigours of 

 a mountain winter. Sometimes a strange doe will 

 adopt the orphan, as he may be called, for the 

 buck, of course, never takes the slightest interest 

 in his offspring. 



None of these objections apply to what is 

 known to Austrian sportsmen as Biegeln. In 

 this method of driving, when properly carried out, 

 the game is first found with the glass, and then 

 quietly moved by two or three beaters (some of 

 the sportsmen often acting in this capacity) 

 towards the guns. The chamois go steadily on, 

 and plenty of time is thus given for the selection 

 of a victim. 



There is yet another method of chamois- 

 hunting — probably unknown to most Englishmen 

 even by description, which is called the Jagd zum 

 Treibstoclc. In this two or three sportsmen only 

 take part, and the object is to drive the game 

 gradually to a point where even they cannot pro- 

 ceed. Knowing as I do the places a chamois will 



