180 AMID THE HIGH HILLS 
presumably because there was only one kind 
of cap. 
" Poca buidhe," which means yellow bag, is 
the Gaelic name of the first compartment or 
large bag of the stag's stomach, and is a name 
used only in the case of the stag. 
Macdougall signalled for the pony, and then 
gralloched the stag. It proved to be a very 
troublesome job to get the stag on to the pony, 
although the latter was usually very quiet under 
such circumstances. JVIacdougall said the reason 
for his being so restive was that he could see the 
very long horns. After helping the gillie and 
the pony - man to put the stag on the pony, 
Macdougall and I tried to find some other stag, 
but in the time still at our disposal we saw nothing 
more except a few hinds. Curiously enough, the 
weights of the 10 - pointer and the Royal were 
exactly the same to an ounce — namely, 15 st. 
7 oz. clean, without heart and liver — and were the 
two best heads of the season in the forest of 
Fealar. Macdougall, who was a stalker of long 
experience, told my host that he had never had 
so strenuous a stalk as the stalk after the Royal, 
and he said to me on the way home, " I shall 
never believe in thirteen being an unlucky number 
