364 IN TIRET AND CHINESE TURKESTAN.
slipped a few cartridges into the carbine magazine and one into the chamber, for, when I was surveying the animal only a few yards from its head, he suddenly rose and, with an angry look and lowered head, seemed about to charge. A bullet from my carbine entered his brain and he fell for the last time. The horns were very short, measuring only 251 inches in length, 13 inches in circumference and 17 inches from tip to tip, though the animal was the most bulky our men had seen.
In Western Tibet there are a few gazelle ; hares are not uncommon, and ducks and geese are frequent visitors at certain places.
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