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shooting in a wild country at ranges beyond two 

 hundred yards. 



After dinner we discussed the programme for the 

 morrow, and it was agreed that the Doctor and I were 

 to hunt back towards Chardak, taking a line about 

 midway up the mountain, whilst J. and Moussa the 

 Turk would take a parallel line, but at a higher level. 

 In this way we hoped that if one or other of us came 

 across goats, the disturbed animals, in their flight up 

 or down the mountain, might come within range of the 

 other rifle. 



On Wednesday morning we again made an early start, 

 and all climbed the first thousand feet above our camp 

 together; then, after giving J. and the Turk time to 

 ascend some five hundred feet higher, the Doctor and 

 I kept along the mountain-side, working over the same 

 ground as we had traversed on the previous Monday, 

 only going in an opposite direction. After a couple 

 of hours' walking and climbing, I made out a goat 

 standing in the shade of a small bush, near the head of 

 a ravine, and, looking at him through the glasses, saw 

 that he was a fair ram, though his horns were nothing 

 like those of the three I had seen on the preceding 

 day. He was a long way off, well over three hundred 

 yards, I judged ; but as the wind was very bad, and I 

 saw no chance of getting any nearer to him, I deter- 

 mined to take the off-chance of hitting him with along 

 shot. Getting into a steady position and putting up 

 the third sight, I had my shot, and, as was to be ex- 



