CHAPTER VI 

 AFTER ARGALI AND WAPITI 



EARLY next morning, the Mongol hunter 

 having been found, and his services secured, 

 Warrington and I set out for the mountains. 

 Crossing the five miles of plain, we reached the 

 mouth of a deep valley, where, in a small village, 

 we found our guide waiting for us. 



Here we left our ponies, and, crossing the 

 boulder-strewn valley bottom, began a stiff 

 climb, which finally brought us to the top of a high 

 ridge. From this point our view extended over a 

 wide panorama of rugged mountains and deep and 

 precipitous valleys and ravines. These we scanned 

 carefully with field-glasses, but finding nothing, 

 descended into one of the valleys, and began to 

 work up it. 



Almost at once we found ourselves in game 

 country, for we had not gone far before we spied 

 a sheep watching us from the crest of a side ridge. 

 He did not seem to mind our presence, so that we 

 were able to get a shot at him. Unfortunately 

 the size of the animal misled us in estimating the 



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