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to the ibex as we dared. Shortly after- 

 wards the day began to break, while we 

 shivered with cold behind our rock. At 

 six a.m. we spotted the herd in nearly the 

 same place as yesterday, and by ten the 

 ibex had gone to their look-out post ; still 

 we could not move. We then had break- 

 fast, a smoke and a read ; then sleep, tea, and 

 read again till it was eight o'clock. Then the 

 herd began to graze, but still we could not 

 move without being seen, so we waited till 

 dusk, and then went back to our bedding 

 again. The next day was a repetition of 

 its predecessor, and we determined that the 

 day after we would try to reach a point a 

 couple of miles further on, and endeavour 

 to get up the hill from there. Accord- 

 ingly, we started shortly after midnight, and 

 went stumbling along in the dark over the 

 snow, always up the snow covered river, 

 and arrived at the desired point while it 

 was still dark. Then our bedding was 

 sent on a mile further to a place where a 

 fire could be lit without danger of disturb- 



