SPORT AND SCIENCE, ON THE 
We now turned our attention to the gorals, 
which from time to time had been seen. Schréder 
especially wanted to get one, and spent all his 
remaining time climbing difficult peaks in search 
of these elusive, chamois-like animals. 
On the third day of our visit to this district 
Warrington and I determined to work a section 
of precipitous country, hitherto unexplored by 
any of the party. We climbed up a long, rocky 
ridge—one of a series which radiated from a massive 
peak to the north of our camp. As we neared 
this peak, Warrington caught sight of a good- 
sized goral, which almost immediately vanished 
in a labyrinth of rocks. A difficult climb up the 
face of a perpendicular cliff brought us to a point 
above the rocks, amongst which we supposed 
the goat to be hiding. By throwing rocks and 
shouting we managed to drive out a fine roebuck, 
but there were no signs of the animal we were 
after. I gradually reached a point at the base 
of the peak, which rose above me in a precipitous 
wall of granite for six or seven hundred feet. 
Suddenly a shower of rocks scattering round me 
told us that the goral was somewhere on that 
rugged cliff, but Warrington, who was a hundred 
yards or so out from the base, could not make 
deer belongs, it is impossible to say. It may turn out to be 
an intermediate form between the Manchurian wapiti (Cerous 
axanthopygus) and the Kansu wapiti (Cervus kansuensis). 
—A. de C. S. 
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