ox 'I'lii': KIM ov TiiK 1)Ksi:i;t 133 



Crowtli. So roii'jli ami lnoktMi is the urdiuul that only a 

 iiiiniitc iVactioii ol the siirracc can l»e coNci'fil wiih the 

 slass. We travcisiMl tli(^ vaviiios, Ritvino- each with Lireat 

 eari\ At iiiiil-(la\' I heard a shni in t h(> adjoiiiiiiu' holldW 

 ami hurried to the rid^'e which coiimiamh'd ii. Allcr a 

 hiii'_^' scaifh I >]»iiMl ;iii Ai'ah with a '_;iiii. har Itchiw and on 

 ihe other si(h' of the wadcw c\iden 1 1 \- KiiiLi' in wait for 

 sonict hinL^-. I'rcscniK' he liegan signallinL:; to aiiothci- who 

 was l)elo\v us. hut invisible. I tlioiiiilit they must he after 

 pai'ti'id<'"es, ami did not |»a\' an\' part icidar alteiition. I 

 was just settling down to luiiclicon and had laid aside the 

 )illi' when I saw the jicad of a niouHon ])assing aloiiu' the 

 rocks not more than Iweiitx' \-ards iVom me, and wholly 

 unconscious ot' our presence. l)efoi'e I couhl u'ct the rille 

 in hand he had |ia-sed. oU'eiang a Sjiliaidid chance il I had 

 been rcadw I ran forward, nuikino' sure that I shouhl Liet 

 another \ iew. laii he had succeeded in puttini;- one of the 

 al)Ove-name(l upright walls of rock hetwccn us, and i 

 never saw him aii'ain. 



Tiie experiences of these first <lays liad eiveii us a 

 toleralilc notion of thi' appcMirance ami hal>its o| the 

 ;inimal wiiich we hojMMl to sc(aire. and l he dinicnities o| 

 the pursuit, and I wdl now ende.ixuui' to des(M'd>e ilieni 

 and to ini[>art I he secrets of the craft . together with such 

 '"tips" as sul)se(pient aiKcnlures suo-o'ested. liei'Mh)tus 

 mentions "asses with horns" whi(di inhaljilcd tliese 

 ramies. True, in tin' <ame sentence he describes "mon- 

 sters with <loo-s' heads, and others without heads who have 

 eyes in iheir breasts" — I sliould like to |>ossess 1id[thics of 

 some of these— bul asses witli hoins is a description wliieli 

 aptlv fits these wild diecp, witii their Ion- and lalliei- dull 



