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procure a better class of men to accompany 

 us, than falls commonly to the lot of the 

 hunters in these mountains. 



The day was passed in examining Wilson's 

 collections of birds, skins, &c., and preparing 

 for the next morning, which was to take us 

 to our shooting-ground at Benara. One of 

 my dogs was so ill as to be carried the latter 

 half of the march. Do all we could for him, 

 he died in two days ; his disorder had been 

 brought on by the heat of the plains, which 

 has a very decided effect upon all English 

 dogs. Under Wilson's guidance, we were 

 now to see some of the game peculiar to the 

 hills ; the ground around us being a favouiite 

 resort of the tahir, one of the species of 

 wild goat of the Himalayas.* In the 

 evening we went out and had our first view of 

 tahir, but did not get a shot ; the walking- 

 was very severe. Fine cool weather, our 

 English appetites began, and we had a very 

 jolly dinner party round a fire for the first 



* The two others are the Ibex, aud the Markhoor. 



