SPORT AND SCIENCE. ON THE 



We now turned our attention to the gorals, 

 which from time to time had been seen. Schroder 

 especially wanted to get one, and spent all his 

 remaining time climbing difficult peaks in search 

 of these elusive, chamois-like animals. 



On the third day of our visit to this district 

 Warrington and I determined to work a section 

 of precipitous country, hitherto unexplored by 

 any of the party. We climbed up a long, rocky 

 ridge — one of a series which radiated from a massive 

 peak to the north of our camp. As we neared 

 this peak, Warrington caught sight of a good- 

 sized goral, which almost immediately vanished 

 in a labyrinth of rocks. A difficult climb up the 

 face of a perpendicular cliff brought us to a point 

 above the rocks, amongst which we supposed 

 the goat to be hiding. By throwing rocks and 

 shouting we managed to drive out a fine roebuck, 

 but there were no signs of the animal we were 

 after. I gradually reached a point at the base 

 of the peak, which rose above me in a precipitous 

 wall of granite for six or seven hundred feet. 

 Suddenly a shower of rocks scattering round me 

 told us that the goral was somewhere on that 

 rugged cliff, but Warrington, who was a hundred 

 yards or so out from the base, could not make 



deer belongs, it is impossible to say. It may turn out to be 

 an intermediate form between the Manchurian wapiti {Cervus 

 xanthopygus) and the Kansu wapiti {Cervus kansuensis), 

 —A. de C. S. 



128 



