Till-: i\\'nii:K of all tiik coats i^n 



\y\\\'j: /icrd" ill ;i likely ])laee — ])ro1)alily llic most efFective 

 Diuaiis ; bill lur llial 1 liad not llic |)alieiice. 



Almo^jf the best chance I liad came in mv way the lirst 

 evening'. We saw a small lici^l fecilin^ near the b.i.-c df 

 tlir cliir. with some o-ood bucks in it, and oot down to the 

 rocks above them in the Last twenty minutes of day li^lil. 

 Arrived within shootini>- distance, we could see a female 

 and two kids feeding' among the trees nearly perpendicu- 

 larly below us. and were peerino- down the openinu's to trv 

 and make out the bucks, when one of the kids l)egan to 

 show signs of uneasiness. Perhaps it was the cry of 

 some partridge : more probably the little beast was sharper 

 of eve than T uave him creibt for, and the settino- sun was 

 shining fidl upon us. Then they began to move off, and 

 for a moment I saw the bucks, distinguishable l)y their 

 size and darker colour. 1 had my head on one of them. 

 but the shot was b'Ug -'ind the light iu my eyes. 

 Surely, I said to myself, they won't believe that 

 voungster. Hoping thev would sto]). and that I should 

 better my position, I withheld my tire. They did stop 

 about three hundred yards off and fed again, but when 

 we arrived near the spdt they had di>appeare(h and. the 

 light fading, we gave them u^). That was a fair sample of 

 our experience. I did not get another chance for a week. 



l)a\'attei' da\' we bask'cd, and sometimes u'asped, in the 

 heat, climbed and tund)led on the loose stones or toiled 

 with \\\o glass, the sweet aroma of the ])ines filling our 

 nostrils. I should bu soriv to make the I'oader as wearv 

 as, to tell the honest truth, we became of " ^lainnui 

 ])a<'li."' and 1 will confine mv nan-ative to a sino'le dnv. the 

 most fortunate which I had. 



