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no sheep, though we found their tracks, also those 

 of serow and goral. 



Starting early one morning, I had only climbed 

 to the top of the first ridge when, on looking over, 

 I saw two roe-deer (Capreolus bedfordi). I pulled 

 out my glass and saw that one was a buck, evi- 

 dently an old beast, for his horns were twisted in a 

 curious manner and " going back." He was within 

 shot, and my first bullet broke his foreleg high up, 

 while the second killed him. I shall not say much 

 about him here, as we were not really hunting roe, 

 and I saw many more afterwards, though I never 

 killed another. This buck weighed 54| Ibs., and 

 was still in his bright red summer coat (Septem- 

 ber 16th). I sent Lao- Wei back with it, as we 

 were close to the village, and went on up the hill. 

 I expected him to join me in an hour or so, but he 

 did not turn up till nearly one, as he had stopped 

 to enjoy a meal in the company of Chi-shi's wife. 

 He was quite convinced I should kill another roe, 

 for my victim had died with its eyes open &nd had 

 its tongue out when he reached Archuen, " which 

 meant it was expecting another one." We saw 

 nothing in the way of big game till the evening, 

 but I shot a variety of snow fowl which the natives 

 call shuechi (pronounced "shuergee"). They are 

 about the size of a hen capercaillie, and make a 

 curious squeaking noise as they run about among the 

 rocks. We went on around the tops of the ridges, 

 eventually descending into the glen up which 

 George had sallied daily. 



How he did it I could never make out. The 

 scenery was beautiful, indeed magnificent, but I, 

 unfortunately, was -in no position to admire it. I 



