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different ways. He took the trail of the 

 largest and followed for a long way, but 

 not coming up with it, he said: "That 

 one is evidently traveling. I should have 

 taken one of the others." 



So he went back to the place where 

 he first found it, and took up the trail of 

 another. After a hunt of over an hour in 

 which he failed to get a shot, he said: 

 "I have followed another traveler. I *11 

 go back and take up the trail of one that 

 is feeding.'* 



But again, after a short pursuit, he 

 gave up that one to go back and try an- 

 other that seemed more promising. Thus 

 he spent a whole day trying each of the 

 trails for a short time, and at night came 

 back to camp with nothing, to find that 

 Chatun, though his inferior in all other 



