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to shelter, but along he went, unmindful of the 

 gale that was ripping along the crags and knock- 

 ing things right and left. Occasionally he made 

 a long leap from point to point. Now and then 

 he paused to look into the canon far below. On 

 the top of the highest pinnacle he stopped and 

 became a splendid statue. Presently he rounded 

 a spur within fifty feet of me and commenced 

 climbing diagonally up a wall that appeared 

 almost vertical and smooth. My glass showed 

 that he was walking along a mere crack in the 

 rock, where footholds existed mostly in im- 

 agination. On this place he would stop and 

 scratch with one hind foot and then rub the end 

 of a horn against the wall! 



As he went on up, the appearance was like 

 a stage effect, as though he were sustained by 

 wires. At the end of the crack he reared, 

 hooked his fore feet over a rough point, and 

 drew himself up like an athlete, with utter in- 

 difference to the two hundred feet of drop be- 

 neath him. From this point he tacked back and 

 forth until he had ascended to the bottom of a 

 vertical gully, which he easily mastered with 



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