CHAPTER X. 



End of Sheep-Hunting How the Sentinel Fell at his Post 

 A Peculiar Wound Finding the Noon Hour by Stars 

 How the Collection of Sheep was Completed. 



HUS far all the hunting had been done 

 within five miles of the camp, but now 

 the naturalist determined to take a wider 

 range. Under ordinary circumstances a 

 mile or two is not considered a great distance, but 

 when it is over the roughest range of mountains in 

 the world, it generally means a day's constant strug- 

 gle to get over the ground without devoting any time 

 to hunting. 



At daylight Dyche was on old Charlie's back, and 

 ten o'clock found him eight miles north of Camp 

 Victoria. The horse was lariated out where he 

 could feed, while the hunter climbed to the top of the 

 highest mountain in the vicinity. From this emi- 

 nence the whole country was carefully scanned, with 

 the expectation of getting a glimpse of a sheep. At 

 last one was discovered about a mile away on the 

 side of the mountain. The colour of these animals so 

 nearly approaches that of the rocks and dirt among 

 which they feed that it is almost impossible to dis- 

 tinguish them unless some movement reveals their 

 whereabouts. Careful scrutiny of the place where 

 the moving object was seen developed the fact that 



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