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and then passed my station ; my second shot 

 went through his body, but he was struck too 

 far back, and in spite of all our efforts, we 

 never found him ; a magnificent beast he was, 

 with enormous horns. It was very late before 

 we reached Gyah, to which place we were 

 forced to proceed, as the baggage had all gone 

 on there, we having been unable to stop the 

 coolies. We returned next morning to the 

 same ground, and spent the whole day in a 

 fruitless search, after the wounded animals. 



The Ovis Ammon are by far the hardest to 

 kill, of all the hill animals that I have had to 

 deal with, and unless hit in a mortal part, 

 take a great deal of lead to stop them. We 

 lost seven, all of them having been very 

 hard hit. 



The Ovis Ammon, appears to be scattered 

 over all the high table-lands and hills east- 

 ward of Ladac, and considering the scanty 

 vegetation of these regions, is in many places 

 numerous. During summer, they are rarely 

 seen at a lower elevation, than 15,000 feet ; 

 from that, up to 18,000, is the general altitude 



