aught you know, there may be others still beyond. 

 How high are they ? And what can they see from 

 there ? Who knows ? But this is sure, that within a 

 few minutes scores will come swooping down in great 

 spiral rushes where not one was visible before. My own 

 belief is that they watch each other, tier above tier 

 away into the limitless heavens watching jealously, as 

 hungry dogs do, for the least suspicious sign to swoop 

 down and share the spoil. 



In the dewy cool of the morning we soon reached 

 the place where Jock had left me behind the evening 

 before ; and from that on he led the way. It was 

 much slower work then ; as far as I was concerned, 

 there was nothing to guide me, and it was impossible 

 to know what he was after. Did he understand that 

 it was not fresh game but the wounded koodoo that 

 I wanted ? And, if so, was he following the scent 

 of the old chase or merely what he might remember 

 of the way he had gone ? It seemed impossible 

 that scent could lie in that dry country for twelve 

 hours ; yet it was clearly nose more than eyes that 

 guided him. He went ahead soberly and steadily, 

 and once when he stopped completely, to sniff at a 

 particular tuft of grass, I found out what was helping 

 him. The grass was well streaked with blood : quite 

 dry, it is true ; still it was blood. 



A mile or so on we checked again where the grass 

 was trampled and the ground scored with spoor. The 

 heavy spoor was all in a ring four or five yards in 

 diameter ; outside this the grass was also flattened, 

 and there I found a dog's footprints. But it had no 

 further interest for Jock ; while I was examining it he 



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