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ing the shots, assured me that two bullets had hit, It was getting late, so, 
sending the Kirghiz down for the yaks, Rakhmat and I started off immediately. 
There was a good deal of blood in the tracks, but no signs of the ram, till on 
turning a corner we came suddenly on the whole flock standing crowded 
together about thirty yards off. On seeing us they dashed off,and then we 
saw the big one, who had been lying down. He got on his feet and tried to 
follow the rest, but was stopped by a bullet in the neck. While helping to 
skin him I noticed the rest of the flock right down in the middle of the valley 
below. They stood foralong time closed up in a bunch; evidently, their 
leader being gone, none of the others would iake the responsibility of show- 
ing the way. Ihave seen Oorial behave exactly in the same way under 
similar conditions, After measuring the horns (58in,) Rakhmat and I made 
off for camp, leaving the yak drivers, who we saw arriving, to look after 
the meat, After this I had no sport fora long time. We saw plenty of CO. poli, 
but only once shootable heads, One is more inclined to dwell on one’s lucky 
days than the failures, though perhaps the latter are as interesting and more 
instructive than the former, so I will give an account of my unsuccessful 
attempt after these rams. 
One day, after riding a Jong way up a snow-covered valley, we found 
a large flock of O, poli rams under a glacier at the head. There were, perhaps, 
fifty of them grazing over a large extent of ground. One or two of them 
appeared to be good heads, and we started to stalk them, Now, up to this 
time I had been rather lucky with the O, poli I had stalked, and had come to 
have rather a poor opinion of their sharpness of sight and general wariness. 
I suppose I was careless, for we were spotted almost as soon as we began the 
stalk, and the rams bolted up-hill, When they got up into the snow, and 
had settled down into single file, we had a good opportunity to examine the 
horns. The biggest looked a good head, perhaps 58in.orso. One of the 
horns was curiously broken or malformed, so I felt certain of recognising 
him again ; another head was very nearly as big. A blinding snowstorm 
came on as we were watching them, so we left them till next day, and got 
back to camp as quickly as we could, 
Next day it was still snowing hard, and did notclear up tillevening. The 
day after, however, it was fine, and going up the nullah early in the morning 
we soon sighted the same flock. They were all lying down on the hillside, 
but some got up and began to graze their way down-hill, When they had 
gone some distance down, a ridge hid them from us, and before long all 
except one ram had got behind this ridge. This one was still lyingdown, and 
blocked our way. We waited for an hour, but he showed no signs of moving, 
and then we began to get impatient, and decided to try astalk in spite of 
him, ‘ The flock might graze their way over the ridge towards us and quite 
spoil our prospect of astalk.’ That was the excuse I made to myself, but 
the real reason was that I was sick of sitting still We had to go about 600 
