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holds, crossed again and this time in safety, 

 though the entreaties of my frightened guide 

 worried me enough all the way across to have 

 made a second slip quite a possible con- 

 tingency. 



We saw no more game that day ; and 

 weary and heart sick, though not with my 

 tail between my legs, since I left most of that 

 on the snow slope, I got back to camp just as 

 Frank and Georgi were finishing their first 

 instalment of mutton chops and maize cakes. 



Frank, it seemed, had only gone as far as 

 the top of some high grass bluffs, three hours' 

 climb perhaps from camp, where he and 

 Georgi sighted a herd of tur about 200 yards 

 off in a hollow below them. Xot bemo^ used 

 to ills rifle, and being shaky from the fact that 

 during his climb he had put his shoulder out 

 and had some difficulty in gettmg it in again, 

 Frank had not done well in his shooting-, but 

 at any rate he had beaten me ; and though his 



