Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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In his way up the rocks and he met him around just at steps. He did so but the animal ran down a cliffs about 300 yds away to meet it. It stopped in a cave under a rock & then I find three nets at the animal would not come out. Two of the beaters after an hour's work managed to get within a few feet of the cave but to a shower of rocks & yellows would not make the goat move. Suddenly when all was quiet it dashed out almost on the face of a beater. He yelled shouted swaved his arms so violently that the animal turned back town and the runner it ran like an antelope among seeming unpassable rocks and was so far from rest that it shooting was only a waste of ammunition. Harry now it got into another cave in the cliff near the bottom of the valley, and he went down after it. I would not have taken that trip down the rocks for all the goats in the net, but he was there to get it. It stuck tight in its little mouth a beater was almost next to after it. Then came out like an arrow. It flew past Harry, only it put away just so suddenly & unexpectedly that he