28 ERCHLESS AND FARLEY, 1916 



the camp over the death of the " Emperor," and 

 glad am I that I did not know how good a beast it 

 was, or I should certainly have missed a second 

 time; as it was the shot was difficult enough from 

 a heaving shoulder and with a dropping rifle. 

 However, all's well that ends well; here's a health 

 to his fallen majesty and to his conqueror Caesar 

 I mean Fraser ! and may we get another to equal 

 it some day; it will be hard to beat. 



The next day, the 10th, was very stormy, a 

 tremendous wind and heavy showers, but we 

 were early astir and up at Erchless soon after 9, 

 to feast our eyes once more on the fine head of our 

 trophy and to get him on the pony and down to 

 Erchless in good time, so that Mackintosh and the 

 pony could rejoin us soon after lunch in case we 

 succeeded in getting a goodish beast we had 

 spied about two miles from our fallen friend on the 

 south-east part of Erchless high up above Loch 

 Fada. We got to about a quarter of a mile from 

 him, but could get no nearer, so decided to lunch, 

 as he was lying down with two or three hinds 

 sheltering from the gale. After about an hour he 

 got up and fed away from the hinds, and in a per- 

 fect hurricane we managed to creep to the top of a 

 ridge and peep over, and there he was 70 or 80 

 yards in front of us. He was facing us, and got us 

 at once, so I fired, and hit him in the chest and 

 knocked him head over heels; but he was up 

 and off and over the ridge like lightning, and 



