68 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



and looking down, I saw a fine old goat lying dead on a 

 flat stone about twenty feet below me. It took us some 

 time to get to him, as he was inaccessible from above, 

 and I had first to rejoin the Doctor, and we then had 

 to get back to the bottom of the corrie and climb up 

 to the dead goat from below. 



He was a fine animal, nearly white in general 

 ground-colour, though darker (a light sandy yellow) 

 on the lower part of the sides and under the belly 

 than on the back. He had a broad black shoulder- 

 stripe and a black line running from behind his horns 

 all down his neck and back. His ears were small, 

 as in all the goat tribe, but his head was set off by 

 a flowing black beard, whilst his tail and the lower 

 parts of his legs were also black down the front face. 

 Immediately I looked at his horns I saw he was not 

 the ram I had first fired at, and was much dis- 

 appointed. Still he carried a pretty head measuring 

 twenty-eight inches, but his horns lacked the beauti- 

 ful sweeping curve of the grand pair I had seen 

 through the glasses, and which I knew must have 

 been exceptionally fine. 



Just after we had got our prize down to a piece of 

 level ground suitable for skinning and cutting it up, 

 we were joined by J. and the Turk, who had seen us 

 from the rocks above. On examining the dead goat, 

 we found that my bullet had entered on the left side 

 just behind the ribs, and traversing the body obliquely 

 forwards, had passed out at the point of the shoulder. 



