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Identifier: huntinginchamois00bonerich (find matches)
Title: Chamois hunting in the mountains of Bavaria and in the Tyrol
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Boner, Charles, 1815-1870
Subjects: Chamois Hunting -- Germany Bavaria
Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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87 CHAPTER VIII. THE CHAMOIS. Having come thus far, it is time, I think, to give someaccount of the chamois itself. First of all be it knownthat the chamois is no goat,* but belongs to the ante-lope genus, f of which it is the only specimen inhabitingEurope. It is larger and more strongly built than aroebuck, and is much heavier. A good buck will weigh55 lbs., and one above 601bs. is a particularly fine fellow.Some however have been shot that weighed 74lbs. and82lbs4 But such are rare and difficult to get at; forthese old bucks remain alone in their inaccessible fast-nesses and the most secluded places; and it is only whenthe winter has set in, and the rutting season begun, thatthere is any chance of seeing them. In order to do sothe hunter must brave the intense cold as well as all thedangers of a region of snow and ice, for he will be led * Well, Peter, I do not think that the sport was so bad after all;for I believe that the chamois, in chase of which the Swiss risk theirlives, and

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