MY FIRST IBEX 41 



main one on our right, which we had first 

 crossed. While going I asked Lassoo where 

 he had found the ibex, and he told me that 

 he had found it quite dead, shot through 

 the heart, about fifty yards from where it 

 had been when I fired. 



Now that the excitement was over I 

 think that we all felt that peculiar sensa- 

 tion which follows the successful attainment 

 of a much-coveted object. There was a sort 

 of warm glow in my brain, and a feeling of 

 absolute content about my heart ; while ever 

 and anon I could not help looking down into 

 the nullah on our left, where the ibex was 

 being ruthlessly shoved along by Chybra 

 in long slides of perhaps a hundred yards 

 at a time ; now getting hung up by a horn, 

 the graceful curve of which would now and 

 again catch up in some soft piece of snow, 

 into which it embedded itself like an anchor, 

 and when freed from this, would go sliding 

 on, sometimes turning over and over slowly, 

 as the surface of the snow, rough in places, 

 tught a grip of the hair ; at other times 



