en asleep. Four of
them broke back through the line of beaters, but one fine buck came
straight toward us. He ran up the slope and crossed a rock-saddle
almost beneath me, but I did not fire until he was well away on the
opposite hillside; then he plunged forward in his tracks, dead.

Without moving from our position we sent the men over the crest of
the mountain to drive the ravines on the other side. The old Mongol
and I stretched out upon the rock and smoked for half an hour, while
I tried to tell him in my best Chinese--which is very bad--the story
of a bear hunt in Alaska. I had just killed the bear, in my
narrative, when we saw five roebuck appear on the sky line. They
trotted straight toward Harry, and in a moment we heard two shots in
quick succession. I knew that meant at least one more deer.

Five minutes later we made out a roebuck rounding the base of the
spur on which we sat. It seemed no larger than a brown rabbit at
that distance, but the animal was running directly up the bottom of
the ravine which we commanded. It was a buck carrying splendid
antlers and we watched him come steadily on until he was almost
below us.

Na-mon-gin whispered, "Don't shoot until he stops"; but it seemed
that the animal would cross the ridge without a pause. He was almost
at the summit when he halted for an instant, facing directly away
from us. I fired, and the buck leaped backward shot through the
neck.

Na-mon-gin was in high good humor, for I had killed two deer with
two shots. Harry brought a splendid doe which he had bored neatly
through the body as it dashed at full speed across the valley below
him. Even the old Mongol had to admit that the wapiti could not have
been greatly disturbed by the shooting, and all the men were as
pleased as children. There was meat enough for all our boys as well
as for the beaters.

Our next day's hunt was for goral on the precipitous cliffs north of
camp. Goral belong to a most interesting group of mammals known as
the "goat-antelopes" because of the intermediate position which they
occupy between the true antelope and the goats. The takin, serow,
and goral are the Asiatic members of this sub-family, the
_Rupicaprinae_, which is represented in America by the so-called
Rocky Mountain goat and in Europe by the chamois. The goral might be
called the Asiatic chamois, for its habits closely resemble those of
its European relative.

I had killed twenty-five goral in Yuen-nan on the fir