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generally manage to have the cliffs at their 

 back. 



Twenty minutes brought me to a snow-filled 

 hollow, where, at any rate, I was out of sight, but 

 had I been detected getting down there ? To 

 approach to leeward I must go to my right. I 

 had actually started to do so, when, happening to 

 turn my head, I saw a herd of ten in full scamper 

 behind me, on the lower slopes of the Zeleni Pas. 

 This rock, as I have before said, is like a sitting 

 human figure, and consequently sheer precipice 

 to the front from the knees down. But the herd 

 kept up the left side till they reached the grass 

 ledge which represents the arms, and disappeared 

 along it, looking exactly like mice in a wheat- 

 stack, w T hich will give the reader some idea of the 

 height of these cliffs. The Zeleni Pas was then 

 quite unknown to me, but I thought it might be 

 possible to follow w 7 here the herd had gone. A 

 few minutes' thought convinced me that the three 

 I had seen had formed part of this herd, and that 

 as soon as they had lost sight of me they had 

 scampered back to the others and gone with them. 

 Consequently I changed my plans, and started up 

 the snow-slope of the gully that led to the main 

 precipice to my left front. When near its head, I 

 secured the dog and stalked round to the spot 

 where I had seen the three. Nothing to be seen, 

 and a whistle failed to move anything. This 



