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occurrence amongst the glaciers and regions 

 of snow, whither they are so often led by their 

 wandering and unsettled habits. Therefore, 

 the report of a gam is almost unheeded, 

 unless close to them, if the person firing be 

 not seen. 



The males and females associate all the 

 year round, but large flocks of both sexes 

 are often met with separately, more parti- 

 cidarly in summer. They bring forth then- 

 young in June, but some are as late as 

 August. Wilson caught many of their 

 lambs, but did not succeed in rearing any of 

 them. One of my men, upon an occasion 

 when we were travelling, and not looking- 

 for game, shot a female, and my boy, Oudea, 

 catching the kid, we put it to one of the 

 goats ; the kid agreed perfectly with its 

 foster-dam, and when we left the flock of 

 sheep and goats behind, we turned them on 

 to the hills near Cheitool, in the Buspa 

 Valley, which are much frequented by 

 burrell. The man we left with them took 

 every pains to rear it, but it was in vain ; it 



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