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tiger up we found that he had missed hhn. Though he has 
knocked over so many elephants and constantly been in 
jungles full of tigers, this was the first shot he ever had at 
one. Two days after, Clogston, another famous elephant 
shot, who was also with us, fell in with a tiger lying down, 
and stalked him to within seventy yards. He took a steady 
shot and struck him so severely, that the hind quarters ap- 
peared to be paralysed, but he crawled away and C. wisely 
did not follow him ; he described the fury of the beasts 
when hit, as very grand. It is the first he also ever had a 
shot at : curious that two great elephant hunters should be 
out here together, and both have their first shots at tigers 
within three days. 
But to return to our ibex. One day in June, 1S56, I had 
an exciting but unsuccessful stalk after a grand old saddle 
back ; while waiting for the mist to clear, as we had seen 
quite fresh tracks, I sat down ; suddenly in a rift of the mistj I 
saw an old black ibex moving along the hill in the direction 
of a bluff rock. I was up and after him at once ; he kept 
steadily on, and though once or twice I got within 140 
yards, I would not risk the shot. He certainly was a- 
splendid old fellow, his saddle and neck looking quite 
white. 1 was most anxious to get him, and that made 
me lose him, for just as we got to the top of a steep hill 
and I expected to catch sight of him some distance beyond, 
I saw him much nearer, and creeping forward 1 got within 
seventy yards of him: he was standing stern on. Instead 
of waiting, as 1 ought to have done, for him to turn, I 
stepped to one side to get a better shot, he saw me at once, 
and dashed on some twenty paces, and then stood broad 
side on, such a nice shot ; but I was too hurried, and being 
