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brother officers, and we had wonderful 

 sport. 



In addition to deer, bison, pea and 

 jungle fowl, and florakin, we came across 

 the jakoor, or Himalaya pheasant, but we 

 were unable to bag any of these ; how- 

 ever, I made up for it afterwards by shoot- 

 ing a wild sheep, which was a source of 

 great pleasure to us, as it was the first we 

 had met with, and we had frequently won- 

 dered at not coming across any. The 

 eclat of this exploit fell to me, and I 

 was heartily congratulated on my success 

 when I returned to camp in the evening. 



A very few days saw us en route once 

 more after the Nepaulese, who we 

 heard had established their head-quarters 

 on the top of an almost inaccessible 

 mountain about twenty days' march from 

 where we were; and the rumours about 



