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and his magnificent skin converted into 

 covers for holsters. Thns ended the hunt, 

 and we returned joyfully to camp ; neither 

 I, nor Wilson, had expected to have finished 

 him without some accident. 



After breakfast we separated, Colls and 

 Gye Sing taking one beat, and Wilson and 

 myself another. We traversed a great deal 

 of very good ground, and bagged two tahir ; 

 it was late before we rejoined our companion 

 at the tents. 



Next day, we started for an adjoining 

 valley, inhabited by one man and his family, 

 who supported them and himself, principally 

 by the proceeds of the musk-deer which he 

 trapped. We found him living in a comfor- 

 table cottage, and a very civil obliging 

 fellow he was, and appeared to have no 

 jealousy of so many rifles, encroaching upon 

 his territories. 



The valley was full of game of all kinds. 

 Musk-deer were there in immense numbers, 

 more plentiful than in any other part of the 

 Himalayas with which I was acquainted 



