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made a motion with his hands, indicating that the 

 bullet had just grazed over the goat's back ; but I 

 doubted his knowing anything about it, and was at the 

 time rather inclined to the view that both shots had 

 been hits. I did not move immediately, as I wished to 

 wait for the Doctor's return before searching for blood 

 spoor; but in less than a minute after I had fired the 

 last shot, one of the two goats that had just disap- 

 peared again showed himself high up on a ledge of 

 the cliff far above us. He looked very white, and car- 

 ried a beautifully curved pair of horns; but he was a 

 very long way off, at least three hundred and fifty 

 yards, I should think. However, I thought there 

 could be no harm in trying a shot at him ; so, pushing 

 up the third sight, and holding, I think, steadily on 

 him, I fired, and once more was informed by the Turk 

 at my side that in his opinion I had again fired a 

 little too high. As before, the intelligence was con- 

 veyed by expressive signs. 



As soon as the Doctor came up, we made our way 

 to the foot of the cliff, and the Turk and I with 

 some difficulty got up to the ledge where the goats 

 were standing when I first fired. The wash-down 

 from the rocks above had covered this ledge in 

 places with a thin layer of sand ; and where the 

 foremost goat had stood when I fired at him, the 

 tracks of his fore and hind feet were plainly visible ; 

 there, too, on the wall of rock behind was the splash 

 of the bullet plain enough, and seemingly exactly at 



