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stream at the bottom of the corrie. After cutting up 

 the deer, we first climbed to the top of one of the 

 highest parts of the Murad Dagh, an open, treeless 

 dome, deeply covered with a sheet of pure white snow. 

 Here the walking was excellent, as there was a hard 

 crust on the snow, through which we did not sink. 

 Near the top of the mountain at an altitude of about 

 seven thousand feet above sea level, we put up a hare 

 of grey-brown colour, which appeared to be identical 

 with the hares of the plains, and which certainly had 

 no white about it, so I suppose the Alpine hare does 

 not exist in this part of Asia Minor, its place being 

 taken by the grey hare of the plains. 



The following day, February 23, was a bitterly 

 disappointing one, as on it I saw three magnificent 

 grey stags, but failed to secure the coveted head of 

 any one of them. We got their spoor early in the 

 morning and followed it for a long way, or rather kept 

 on cutting it; for as the wind was bad, we often left 

 it, and made detours in the hope of sighting the deer 

 without giving them our wind. It was whilst making 

 one of these detours that we suddenly sighted the 

 stags, and at once dropped, and lay hidden amongst 

 some rocks on the edge of a broad ravine. When we 

 first saw them, they were about five hundred yards off 

 and were coming straight towards us ; and looking at 

 the course they were holding, and the formation of 

 the ground, it really seemed as if they would have 

 passed within one hundred yards of where we lay, and 



