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quite close to these deer, unseen by them ; but 

 the instant I put up my head to look at them, 

 they took the alarm, and were going best pace 

 down a steep hill, when my bullets overtook 

 them, and they both rolled dead down the hill^ 

 going heels overhead like rabbits as they fell. 



My boat's crew now set to work to gralloch 

 these deer, and to carry them down to the boat 

 — half a deer to a man — while I followed up 

 the glen in search of the two indifferent stags 

 I had lost sight of. I found them about two 

 miles up, and close to the edge of the glacier. 

 They were not much alarmed, and had recom- 

 menced to feed, so I easily got within shot of 

 them again, and I disposed of them also by a 

 right and left shot. I opened these two deer 

 myself, as the sailors were on their way to the 

 boat. After having concluded this necessary, 

 but slightly disagreeable operation, I sat down 

 and had a good look round with my glass, I 

 soon had the satisfaction of discovering two 

 superb stags lying down on the opposite side of 

 the glen. It now began to snow very heavily, 

 and under cover of it I crossed the glen, not 

 far from the stags, without their seeing me, 

 I got up to about a hundred yards or so from 

 them behind a bank of mossy earth, and shot 



