66 CKAP-NA-GOWER. 



the shore, being quite unable for the steeps of Crap-na- 

 Gower. We followed to the beach ; but, upon getting 

 there, he had hidden again. 



After a search of many hours, my follower winded him. 

 Upon looking cautiously all round, he detected him com- 

 pletely engulfed in heather, with rocks on each side, and 

 only a small aperture by which he had entered this snug 

 shelter. He had an instinctive knowledge the moment he 

 was discovered ; for he immediately rose and limped out of 

 his retreat. The man hallooed to me, and I took my 

 station upon a rock which commanded two passes, one of 

 which he must cross, as he was unable to climb the high 

 rocks. When he was within forty yards, I shouted to 

 make him turn oif the shore, and thus present a broadside. 

 He only looked up languidly, and kept his course along 

 the beach. He passed directly under me, at the distance 

 of twenty yards, when I fired at the back of his neck, and 

 hit him in the spine : of course his death was instantaneous. 



Our boat was at the other side of the island, and we had 

 no time to bring it round; so we could only leave him 

 where he fell, and send early next morning to fetch him 

 home. A light cobble and couple of gillies were along- 

 side of him by five o'clock ; but, even before that early 

 hour, Kob Koy's " bedrels, the corbies, and the hoody 

 craws," had entered upon office. I made them welcome 

 to their share, but preserved his head, horns, and skin, 

 together with that of his chief, which are as handsome 

 trophies of the chase as any I have in my collection. 



