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especially as the prospect of ever getting 

 out is nil. 



We bivouacked again that night ; and as 

 we had seen nothing good enough to shoot 

 there, went on next day to the foot of a 

 branch nullah, in which Lassoo said we 

 should see some good " heads." 



There we pitched our camp, and taking 

 four men with us, with bedding and food 

 for three days, as well as two goats, we set 

 off up the branch valley. A steep, narrow 

 little valley it was ; quite precipitous and 

 inaccessible on the left, though fairly easy 

 on the right-hand side. We had not gone 

 a couple of miles when we saw a herd 

 of ibex, only four in number, but all good 

 ones. They were up in the crags on the 

 left, and as our route up the valley itself, 

 the only possible one, was commanded by 

 them, we were unable to move till dusk, 

 when we went on to a clump of rocks, and 

 there stopped for the night. At two a.m. 

 we started up the valley, which looked like a 

 snow road, and arrived by five a.m. as near 



