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frightened, and will be quite pacified by 

 this evening ; for they cannot have seen 

 us, or winded us, and I expect they only 

 had a suspicion that something was up ; 

 though they will be on the look-out for a 

 time, they will be all right again by this 

 evening." 



Accordingly we withdrew a few hundred 

 yards, to a sheltered place, and lay down, 

 to spend the time till three in the after- 

 noon, when the ibex would again be on the 

 move. 



There then occurred a rather lively al- 

 tercation between Lassoo and Muksooda. 

 The latter was very disappointed at what 

 had occurred, and remarked that it would 

 have been much better to have got a 

 smaller one than none at all. This in- 

 censed Lassoo. He said that a man who 

 did not try to get the very pick of a herd 

 wasn't fit to be a shikari, and that Muksooda 

 had better go and be a bear hunter if he 

 had such low ideas. Lassoo, of course, had 

 my support, and Muksooda retired, a bit 



