A Tame White Goat 



impossible places. Their great round 

 hoofs, with sharp-cut edges, can grip the 

 slightest projection in, the rocks, and no 

 precipice or ice-wall has any terror for 

 them. At times they come quite low tow- 

 ards the foot-hills, usually to visit some 

 mineral lick, but generally they are found 

 only in the very high broken ground, 

 among stupendous crags and precipices. 

 They are self-confident, rather stupid 

 beasts, and as they are accustomed to 

 look for danger only from below, it is an 

 easy matter to approach them if once the 

 hunter is able to get above them ; but they 

 live in such inaccessible places that their 

 pursuit entails great labor and hardship. 

 Their sharp black horns are eight or ten 

 inches long, with points like needles, and 

 their necks are thick and muscular, so 

 that they are dangerous enemies for any 

 foe to handle at close quarters ; and they 

 know their capacities very well, and are 



