THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
Highlands rise quickly above the seaboard, and from all accounts 
they are not barren, burnt -up, volcanic bergs. The Gara Mountains, 
behind the Dhofar Plain, are not more than 3,000 feet high, but they 
are described by the only visitors (the Bents) as possessing fertile soil, 
park-like scenery, grass-covered and dotted with clumps of sycamore 
and limes. There should be ibex, and possibly tahr, in those very 
secluded ranges. 
I have seen ibex on little desert hills which do not rise 500 feet above 
the plain. I have actually seen them on the desert itself, and on one occa- 
sion witnessed Arabs running them down with dogs on narrow ridges 
surrounded by flat desert, on to which the ibex dared not go. The only 
other game which may fall to the hunter are gazelle, which are to be found 
in all parts of the Peninsula. In the north the dorcas gazelle is common. 
Further south the Arabian gazelle takes its place, while on the Oman side 
the little gazella mar tea has its home. 
DOUGLAS CARRUTHERS. 
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