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II be has finally reached the heights
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preach them without being seen aud
must take care that the wind blows from
where the channels are toward him. IL
is often necessary to take q round about
way, for many hours at q time, over cliffs
and precipitous rocks, and it is not rare
for hunter to be from light to fourteen
days before he can obtain shot.
In such hunt it IL not a rare occur
renee If he passes the night under the
blue sky, between high, snow covered
mountains. He generally takes with him
provisions for several days. If the
chamois have caught sight Of him, they
escape up the rocks; the hunter follows
them, often mourning great danger in
climbing. when be has reached place
where he can neither 20 forward nor
backward.
If the chamois have become quiet in
the meantime the hunter looks for hid
ing place, where he turks until the cha
mois comes near enough to be shot at;
then it costs one or two of them their
lives, as the channels hunter never misses
If he has killed one, he commences new
and dangerous work. He must go in
quest of the prey, that has perhaps fallen
over a precipics; and then, with from a
hundred to hundred and fifty pounds
burden, he will return home.
He binds the chamois' feet together,
and places them 80 that the feet are ON
his forehead and the rest of the body is
on his shoulders and back. With this
burden he goes up and down precipitous
cliffs, over slippery fields of snow and
dangerous glaciers. Often thick fogs
come up, so that he can see but a few feet
ahead; or furious tempest breaks out
that threatens to prccipitate the hunter
into the abyss; or vultures hurl them
selves down on his shelter, when he
climbs steep precipice, and try to push
him down.
1t is no wonder, therefore, that yearly,
chamois hunters lose their lives in falling
down a gap in the ice, or u precipice;
and nevertheless, other inhabitants of the
Alps undertake this dangerous chase,
that only brings them few forms, as
only the skin and horns of the chamois
are bought.-Sunday Magazine.