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There were some truck-gardens in the outskirts, and we traded fresh vegetables for some of our issue rations. There are few greater luxuries when one has been living on canned foods for a long time. I saw several ibex heads nailed up over the doors of houses. The owners told me that they were to be found in the near-by mountains, but were not plentiful.

Karl had adopted their idea; and had provided chopped grass as a substitute for the chopped straw, and in lieu of sheep's wool he had procured a quantity of the poshm of the ibex, and other animals, that had been killed the rich shawl-wool of Cashmere! The car, which has already been described as a sort of deep hamper, was not over three feet in diameter.

Brown very quietly laid one hand on Stent’s arm. "A geier, perhaps," suggested Siurd, his eye glued to his spyglass. "No ibex?" asked Stent in a voice a little forced. "Noch nicht, mon ami. Tiens! A gemsbok high on the third peak feeding." "Accorded," grunted the Herr Professor after an interval of search; and he closed his spyglass and placed his rifle on the moss.

Some day, perhaps, the exact significance of this emblem may be explained, we are content to point out the variety and happy arrangement of the sinuous lines which surround and enframe the richly decorated pilaster that acts as its stem. The astragali, the ibex horns and the volutes, may all be easily recognized here. Ivory plaque found at Nimroud. Actual size.

I was starving, poisoned with horrors, sick to death of the brutality of life." "Things had gone so hardly with you then?" she murmured. He nodded. "From the first. I came to London as an adventurer, it is true. I knew no one, and I had no money. But the editor of the Ibex had written me kindly, had accepted a story and asked for more.

"The ibex," said he, "is an animal whose name has been long famous, and about which the closet naturalists have written a great deal of nonsense as they have about almost every other animal on the earth.

In the ibex the beard is not developed during the summer, and is so small at other times that it may be called rudimentary. See Dr. But with most kinds of monkeys the various tufts of hair about the face and head are alike in both sexes. Now, what must we conclude with respect to such sexual differences as these?

These ibex, according to Good, he stalked early and late for four entire days. At last on the morning of the fifth day he succeeded in getting within range of the flock, which consisted of a magnificent old ram with horns so long that I am afraid to mention their measure, and five or six females.

And here is a curious fact which has scarcely been noticed by naturalists. The original of our goat is supposed to be the Persian ibex. At any rate, it was an ibex of some species, as its horns plainly show.

The pass which we should have had to tackle, had we carried out our original intention of going into Astor for markhor and ibex, is nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, and is still securely and implacably closed to all but the hardiest sportsmen. As the mountains closed in on either side, we began to look out for the camp, which we knew was not far up the nullah.