Numbering altogether over six hundred men (all mounted), they had been out from Ispahan nearly ten days.

Yesterday the prince's party had been exceptionally lucky, and had had splendid sport.

We passed, on the road to Gez, a caravan of fifteen mules laden with the spoil--ibex, deer, wild sheep, and even a wild ass among the slain.

The latter had fallen to the governor's own rifle.

There is plenty of sport to be had in Persia, if you only take the trouble to look for it, and in comparative comfort too, with tents, stores, cooking apparatus, etc., if time is no object.