yards. As I was trying to make out which was the largest cow, one of them saw me, and 

 started off. As she did so I fired and hit her hard, and then ran after the herd, reloading as 

 I went. They did not go away very fast, being evidently confused by the firing, and I 

 fired three or four shots, which had the effect of breaking up the herd into two portions. 

 One lot of three now went straight up the hill above me, and I soon rolled over two of 

 them quite dead. Two or three of the other lot had already shown signs of being badly 

 wounded, but none of them had yet dropped. I now turned my attention to them, and 

 saw that one very large cow had a broken foreleg and was limping slowly away. I followed 

 her up, and soon overtook her in the bed of the river, and gave her a finishing bullet. The 

 other wounded Yak escaped with the rest of the herd. I had now shot three cow Yak, so 

 I determined not to fire at any more, but I was more anxious than ever to bag a bull. 



Next day I went up to the very head of the Kyobrung valley, exploring all the small 

 lateral valleys as I went, but I could not even see the track of a bull. I found one cow, 

 which I would not attempt to shoot, but I bagged three fine Antelope. 



On the ist July I had several letters to write, so I did not go out in the morning, but 

 sent men to bring in the Antelope, which I had left under a rock. About mid-day a man 

 came in with the news that he had seen a bull. I at once started in pursuit, and after 

 walking about six miles, reached the place where he had been seen. Here, sure enough, 

 was a large fresh track, which I at once followed up : we had not gone far before we 

 disturbed a flock of fine Burrell, which unfortunately galloped away in the direction that 

 the bull had taken, and on tracking a mile or two farther we found that they had evidently 

 disturbed him. He had been lying down on the steep hill-side, but on seeing the Burrell 

 running away he had gone farther up the valley. Luckily he was not much frightened, 

 and about a mile farther on we found him standing in a wide ravine far up the hill-side. He 

 had chosen his position well, and it was quite impossible to approach him where he was, so 

 I lay down to watch him. He soon lay down also, and remained in the same position till it 

 was quite dark, when I left him and returned to camp, a rough walk of eight or nine miles. 



I was quite determined that I would not lose a chance of shooting the bull by any 

 laziness on my part, so I was up long before daylight next morning and set out for the place 

 where I had left him. On reaching the spot, we found by the tracks that he had gone a 

 little higher up the valley, and then descended to the river, which he had crossed. 



We now discovered a herd of Yak feeding two or three miles farther up the valley ; so, 

 thinking it probable that the bull might have joined them, we marked the place where we 

 left his tracks, and went to have a look at the herd. We were not disappointed — the old bull 

 was there, the remainder of the herd consisting of the twelve survivors of the lot which I 

 had fired at two days before ; and I was sorry to see that two of them were evidently badly 

 wounded and very sick : (they were afterwards found, one dead, and the other so weak that 

 it could not keep with the herd). The Yak were feeding in a grassy nullah, which was so 

 wide where they were, that it was impossible to get a shot ; but I saw that if they moved up 

 in the direction in which they were now feeding, I should probably get a good chance. I 

 was very anxious about the wind, which was continually changing, but fortunately it did not 



