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too weak to move, and so promptly despatched it, and 

 carried it home on his cart, chuckling greatly to him- 

 self as he saw the sportsmen presently coming down 

 the mountain, following slowly and carefully on the 

 blood spoor of the wounded animal. Naturally, when 

 they reached the spot where the peasant had killed 

 and lifted it from the ground, the blood tracks sud- 

 denly ceased ; nor, although they made casts all round 

 could they ever pick up the spoor again. The man 

 had left no footmarks on the hard stony ground, and 

 they never dreamed that their goat had been picked up 

 a few hundred yards in front of them, and was at that 

 moment reposing peacefully on the bullock cart that 

 was being driven slowly along over the plain below 

 them. Allah had not been kind to them ; but, on the 

 other hand, he had been very good to the driver of 

 the cart. 



Our lunch finished, we again went forwards, and 

 kept moving till late in the afternoon ; but though we 

 worked through some very promising-looking ground, 

 we saw no more goats, and when shortly after dusk 

 we reached our camp, which had been pitched at the 

 foot of the mountain, at a spot well known to the 

 Doctor, close to a spring of water, we were quite ready 

 for the substantial dinner which Pabli had got ready 

 for us. 



We were up betimes the next morning, and in the 

 early dawn climbed the steep face of the mountain to 

 a height of about one thousand feet above our camp, 



