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iiicaiit. W (■ had (H)iiu' all t lint \v;i y loi' not liiiig. Presently, 

 we saw aiKitlicr ami aiiollior, 'i'lic iiiouiiiniii was covered 

 witli tliian. A ('a[)i(;d p!;icc for ilrrv. doulillcss, hut miU'li 

 later in the \r:\v when ihr llock.s iio down. lUit our 



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immediate concern was to timl wood and water. At last 

 we had to stop, for it got too d.iik to go on. l''(»i innately, 

 we discovered a heap ol" chips on a little plateau where we 

 could pitch a tent, and innnediately called a halt, and 

 l)undled the packs on the ground, while we sent oil" two 

 men to seek for water in the A^alley. In an Itour they 

 returnc(l. with enough foi' di'inking. and we made ourselves 

 comfortable. 



In the morning, impiiry of the shepherds confirmed 

 oui' impression as to the deer. They witc no doul»t 

 somewhere on the range, for we. subserpiently, saw some 

 horns in one of the villages, but it is very extensive, and 

 the valleys were too deep to get our pack train along 

 it, parallel with its axis. There seemed to l»e no other 

 course but to go down on the northern side, and up .ignin 

 at some other })oint. A distant part of the mounl;iin 

 was pointed out to us where there were '' suc/eun chok'' 

 (plenlv of stags). ll lookeil ([uite close, but it took us a 

 day ;ind a h;dt' to reach. There was said to be a ^ urnk 

 who knew it well, and was a niiglil\- hunter, and we went 

 out of our wav to find his village. He was euiiaijed in 

 thrashing, and his wife, a regular termagant, declared in 

 most forcible lan^uas^e tli;il he shoul<l not go liuntin'j. 

 " Why, you idle vagabond, you never catch anything 

 when vou do go. Look at these poor di;ir little children. 

 and attend to vour harvest." That is what she seenieil to 

 be saying. Then she seized his gun from him and ihrew 



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