Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . MOUNTAIN GORGE. GIG. THE JIAKALS leap. tlie wildest scenery in the world. Mr. Atkin-sons sketches abound in wild gorges, clovendeep into the heart of the mountains, weird cav-erns, and fantastic basaltic columns, which thelegends of the tribes atlfirm to be the work of Sheitan and his subordinate demons. One of the most remarkable of these wildformations was the scene of a characteristic ad-venture, which Mr. Atkinson describes with jjenand pencil. The )naral, a kind of large stag, is the favor-ite game in the mountain regions. He
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . MOUNTAIN GORGE. GIG. THE JIAKALS leap. tlie wildest scenery in the world. Mr. Atkin-sons sketches abound in wild gorges, clovendeep into the heart of the mountains, weird cav-erns, and fantastic basaltic columns, which thelegends of the tribes atlfirm to be the work of Sheitan and his subordinate demons. One of the most remarkable of these wildformations was the scene of a characteristic ad-venture, which Mr. Atkinson describes with jjenand pencil. The )naral, a kind of large stag, is the favor-ite game in the mountain regions. He atfbrdsnoble sport for the hunters, and his enormoushorns are highly valued by the Chinese. Butit demands a fearless hunter to follow himamong the precipices and glaciers to which heascends in the summer. One day a couple ofCossacks were out hunting the maral among theAla-tan Mountains. At length they started amagnificent animal, whose horns alone wereworth 120 roubles. They chased him fromridge to ridge, and from valley to valley. To-ward evening they had driven him along a nar
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