CHAPTER VI 
AFTER ARGALI AND WAPITI 
ARLY next morning, the Mongol hunter 
having been found, and his services secured, 
Warrington and I set out for the mountains. 
Crossing the five miles of plain, we reached the 
mouth of a deep valley, where, in a small village, 
we found our guide waiting for us. 
Here we left our ponies, and, crossing the 
boulder-strewn valley bottom, began a stiff 
climb, which finally brought us to the top of a high 
ridge. From this point our view extended over a 
wide panorama of rugged mountains and deep and 
precipitous valleys and ravines. These we scanned 
carefully with field-glasses, but finding nothing, 
descended into one of the valleys, and began to 
work up it. 
Almost at once we found ourselves in game 
country, for we had not gone far before we spied 
a sheep watching us from the crest of a side ridge. 
He did not seem to mind our presence, so that we 
were able to get a shot at him. Unfortunately 
the size of the animal misled us in estimating the 
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