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try to reach a tree growing on a ledge a little below 

 me, the stem of which would have served as a rest for 

 my rifle. I had just handed my rifle down to a ledge 

 below me, and was preparing to follow, when suddenly 

 the young ram stood up, and the next instant bolted, 

 becoming instantly lost to sight amongst the rocks 

 and bushes below him. He had either heard some- 

 thing, or an eddy of wind had brought him the scent 

 of a Turk or a Christian above him, and he had not 

 thought it necessary to stop and inquire what they 

 were doing there. Well, it was the fortune of the 

 chase, one day with the hunted, and another with 

 the hunter. I was much disappointed at my want of 

 success, for, although I knew that the head of the 

 goat, which with a lucky shot I might have secured, 

 was not a big one, it would, nevertheless, have made a 

 pretty trophy ; besides which, continual want of suc- 

 cess in a new country, and amongst people who do not 

 know you, is more galling than it would be in an old 

 hunting-ground, where one's followers know that the 

 luck will average up in the end ; for in a new country, 

 if you are not successful at first, your men are apt to 

 at once put you down as a duffer, and lose all their 

 keenness to find game. After this we climbed up and 

 down cliffs for the rest of the day, searching for wild 

 goats in the ravines and corries, but saw nothing until 

 when returning home, about an hour before sunset, 

 and pretty low down on the mountain, we saw a flock 

 of eight ewes and kids scampering along the rocks as 



