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then, leaving Hyde to skin it, went on to the second, 

 which we found quite dead. 



Meanwhile, the other men had failed to discover the 

 doe which fell first, so AH went to help them, while I 

 looked after the skinning and weighing ; by this time 

 rain was falling in torrents, with occasional bursts of hail 

 and sleet as a change. As soon as Hyde joined me 

 with the head of the large buck, I started off to look for 

 the second female ; the track it had made as it rolled 

 down was plain enough, and this we followed till it came 

 to the edge of a precipice. After failing to find a road 

 down we returned to where the second buck had fallen, 

 and found all the men sheltering under the ledge of a 

 rock, where they proposed to spend the night. My 

 clothes were dripping, my teeth chattering, so, catching 

 hold of one of the men — for talking had no effect what- 

 ever — I told him to lead me down to camp. He started 

 oft" to the plact; where we had already proved there was no 

 path, so I took the lead myself, struck off down the hill- 

 side, and in an hour found a track which led us round 

 the hills and up to camp, where we arrived at 7.30. 

 The final climb up-hill with an icy wind blowing in our 

 faces tried me very much, after the month spent in the 

 steaming Soudan ; however, some hot soup and a roaring 

 fire soon revived me, though I burnt the foot off one 

 sock without feeling any warmth in my toes. 



Early next morning the men arrived safely, with the 

 three ibex-heads ; they had wisely moved down to one 

 of the caves used as sheep-pens, and there spent the 

 night. After photographing the heads, I started off to 

 look for the second female, but although I searched the 



