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boulder; but almost immediately after we had observed 

 it, it moved on along the ledge and disappeared round 

 the shoulder of the buttress of rocks, and as it moved 

 I saw that it was walking very lame. We were still 

 examining the ground some few minutes later, when 

 suddenly the two magnificent old billy-goats we were 

 looking for stepped out on to a ledge of rocks in 

 full view some hundred yards beyond the foot of the 

 buttress by which they had been previously hidden. 

 Following closely behind them came the lame nanny ; 

 and I have no doubt that, had we reached our station 

 a couple of minutes earlier, we should have seen the 

 two big goats on the near side of the buttress where 

 we had first seen her. 



The two big goats were, I think, certainly the 

 same that we had disturbed earlier in the day, and 

 had since been following, and they must have picked 

 up the lame nanny as they went along. Had I just 

 caught them on the buttress, I should have had a 

 nice shot at about two hundred yards ; but they were 

 now too far off for me to feel at all sure of hitting, 

 had I tried a shot, so I resolved to wait and let them 

 get out of the ravine they were in, in the hope of 

 being able to get nearer to them in the next. They 

 were moving very slowly along, one behind the other, 

 continually halting and standing motionless for some 

 considerable time. Sometimes the nanny-goat was 

 behind and sometimes she led the two old billies, 

 that also continually passed and repassed each other. 



