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with the deep colour of a few scattered pines, while 

 the mountain peach and wild apricot blossomed 

 pink and white, lending a soft beauty to the land- 

 scape. Above all the jagged needle-like peaks of 

 granite towered away into the azure blue of the 

 cloudless sky, like the enchanted castles of our 

 childhood's fairy-tales. 



Having arranged camp to our satisfaction, we 

 immediately set out in search of game wherewith 

 to fill our larder, as we had brought no meat with 

 us. We had climbed the opposite slope but 

 halfway, when three roe-deer were put up. Our 

 rifles rang out, but the deer continued bounding 

 through the bushes. One, however, broke away 

 from the others and came towards us. Schroder 

 and I fired simultaneously and the deer rolled 

 over. He turned out to be a young buck, and 

 there were two wounds in the hindquarters. We 

 returned to camp feeling that there were several 

 days' good sport ahead of us. 



That night as we lay in bed we heard many 

 strange noises. The far-away hoot of the great 

 eagle owl was wafted to us on the night air; the 

 night jar uttered his peculiar knocking call, which 

 seemed to come from everywhere and yet from 

 nowhere in particular ; down by the stream the 

 resonant croak of the mountain frog rose from the 

 water's edge ; but pleasantest of all to our ears 

 was the barking of a roe-deer close on the slope 

 behind our tent. 



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