rim of the cliff, then the east side. The villagers espied a goral pasturing far below on a boulder under a pine tree. I hit it the second shot and it rolled down out of sight. They went down through the steep cliff in about an hour. The storm of this animal which was an old one, contained alder leaves + twig but no other woodland or grass. The cliff side has many alder trees + alder scrubby growth on it making a convenient fodder. The river (long thong) more the bent goes down more than a fourth mile to the mon- conformity. The east side is limestone, the cliffs being rugged + high with caves in places, & the west side of the river is basaltic lava in a series of steep terraces or basalts flows. Bordering the riverside on this side are basalt columns in places. A stone old fat desk. 3 This morning I shot a young goral on the cliffs after 2 had