140 IN THE LAND OP THE BORA. 



and a covey got up wild in front of Jusic. 

 Directly afterwards I put up two birds and 

 bagged one, and this I repeated fifty yards 

 further on. Presently we got to where the ridge 

 ended. I had calculated the birds would drop 

 here rather than face the high scirocco wind 

 round the corner, and my idea was well founded. 

 The birds rose in quick succession, and we had 

 laid the foundations of a good bag before we had 

 done with them. We had marked two or three 

 on to the hill beyond, so we crossed the valley 

 between, but failed to find the birds we were 

 looking for. Probably they had sat still. A 

 stone-hen generally runs uphill after he has been 

 moved, and thus makes it easy for dogs to pick 

 up the scent. When he sits still among high 

 rocks it is almost impossible for small dogs to 

 hit him off, and unless you almost step on him 

 he will not rise. " Waldmann " got on a line here, 

 whether of fox or of hare I cannot say, and ran 

 it back a mile or more. He thus lost us, and 

 I saw no more of him till our sport was finished. 

 I expected to find him down by the canoe, but 

 when at last we got back to where we had 

 hidden the lunch, there he was ivaiting for us. 

 If this is not reason I do not know what is : 

 " They left some things among the rocks here, 

 ergo they will return here." 



Meanwhile we were trying on. The hillside 



