130 GOLOVINSKY. 



old Indian sportsman tells me who has shot many of 

 these ' cazeoles,' to the Indian ' karkee.' Indeed, all 

 the game found in the Caucasus is the same as, or 

 very nearly allied to, species found throughout the 

 mountains of India. 



Later on in the day, whilst exploring a rhodo- 

 dendron thicket at the very summit of a high hill, 

 shut in and encircled by still higher eminences, I 

 heard something bolt from me through the rattling 

 covert, and then pause, and with a loud sniff try to 

 get my wind. Apparently getting it. the beast 

 changed his course and proceeded at right angles 

 to the line of his first rush, and then halting, 

 again tried for my wind. Luckily for me, shut in 

 as we were by the higher peaks, the wind kept 

 veering round ; and, thoroughly puzzled and beaten, 

 the unlucky beast kept changing his course until 

 at last I, standing behind a tree, saw a long grey 

 snout and a pair of gleaming white tusks peering 

 out of a thicket some thirty yards in front of me. 

 The quick eyes sighted me at once in spite of my 

 tree, and I had hardly time to fire before the owner 

 of the eyes had retreated out of sight. Quick as 

 the shot had to be, however, it was wonderfully 

 effective, and the boar went crashing head over 

 heels from top to bottom of the hill, there; to rest 

 still as sudden death could make it until I could get 

 down to him. The bullet had gone in at the front of 

 the shoulder, and traversing the whole length of the 



