Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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sheep there had reached the bottom of the valley where my fourth bullet and hit [illegible] and struck him with a [illegible] in the neck broke his neck. Tom had opened fired fire when the the other came threw they appeared at the mouth of the cany- intestine, but his rear sight had been loacked so the climber down the cliff this shots did not damage wound well. It was hard luck that I had my remaining two carted to kill an argali. got at the second one as he ran up, the of [illegible] hill in the range was three hours about six miles, and there was a [illegible]. The abtmen guest moved that finished the big ram eventually and I might have killed the other before it crossed the creek, but my experience has taught me that as hunt animals it is best to keep planting at chances with rough country. to take no a wounded animal such as this. fors good. I have lost too many bringing both specimens by attempting to finish them off when they were badly hit. The game I had killed was a beauty. His horns were almost equal to those of the record head which Harry had killed on the first day but one of themwas scarred by a broken tip. A the left horn, he must have lost, two or three feet it must have weathered nearly a score of winters. The old warrior I saw many [illegible]