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We continued our precarious jour- 
ney for another quarter of a mile, when 
I motioned that I was going to try to 
get a sight of the antelope, which, ac- 
cording to my notion, were under the 
rock some hundred feet below, and 
signed to Nimrod to stay behind. 
Surely my guardian angel attended 
that descent. I slid down a crack in 
the rock three feet wide, which gave 
me a purchase on the sides with my 
elbows and left hand. The right hand 
grasped the rifle, to my notion an 
abominably heavy awkward _ thing. 
One of these drops was eight feet, 
another twelve. A slip would probably 
have cost me my life. Then I crawled 
along a narrow ledge for about the 
width of a town-house front, and, mak- 
ing another perilous slide, landed on 
a ledge so close to the creatures I was 
