i2 4 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



colour; but they looked long and heavy as well, and 

 two of them, I believe, carried very fine heads. 



This was the last chance I had, as, owing to the near 

 approach of the feast of Bairam, I had to leave the 

 mountains on February 26. 



During this trip to the Murad Dagh, I saw scarcely 

 any eagles or vultures, nor did I discover any of their 

 nesting-places; so when Bairam was over I thought I 

 would visit the Maimun Dagh, a mountain range much 

 nearer the coast, where I knew these great birds of 

 prey were plentiful, and where I was in hopes of getting 

 a shot at a wild goat. 



Leaving Smyrna, whither I had returned from 

 Ouchak a few days before, at 8 A.M. on March 7, I 

 arrived at Chardak, a station at the foot of the Mai- 

 mun Dagh at five o'clock in the evening. Here I was 

 joined on the following morning by my old friend Dr. 

 Carpuzza, who had been with me on an expedition after 

 wild goats, two years previously, and who had now 

 come down from Dinair to meet me. After a hurried 

 breakfast I sent Theodore and Mustapha, with the 

 camp outfit packed in a native cart, to our old camp- 

 ing place at the foot of the mountain, and the Doctor 

 and I then went straight up the hillside. In the course 

 of the morning we saw two wild boars. They were 

 not very large, and were probably a sow and a young 

 boar. They were running when we saw them, and I 

 got a snap-shot at the hindmost, as they were passing 

 amongst some trees about one hundred and fifty yards 



