82 SPORT AND TRAVEL 



the wind, we were on the right side of them in that 

 respect, and I wanted to climb up the rocks by the 

 same track they had taken, in the hope of getting a shot 

 at them from the point where they had last been visible 

 on the sky-line. 



I believe that this would have been the better plan ; 

 but as Mustapha wished to approach them from be- 

 low, by working round the base of the rocks they 

 had crossed, I let him have his way. As we ap- 

 proached the point from which we hoped to command 

 a view of the ground beyond the rocks over which the 

 goats had disappeared, Mustapha dropped on his knees, 

 and, taking off his cap, or fez, crept cautiously forward, 

 I following closely behind him in the same position. 

 Suddenly, after peering over a rock, he drew back, and 

 crouching down made signs to me to come forward. 

 I did so, but on looking over the rock saw nothing. 

 Before me lay a chaos of huge boulders cut into sec- 

 tions by deep chasms, and my guide gave me to under- 

 stand that he had seen the horns of one of the goats 

 just as he was disappearing into one of them. He 

 now signed to me to keep a good look-out whilst 

 he went back to get his cap, but after surveying the 

 ground, and noting the position of a deep cleft in 

 the rocks in which I felt sure the goats were for the 

 moment hidden, I thought I could get into a better 

 position by advancing along a ledge dividing two great 

 masses of rock just in front of me. Along this ledge 

 I had to advance standing, keeping a sharp look-out 

 on the crevasse in front of me. 



