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was very anxious to keep the meat in best con¬ 
dition, we cleaned him and hung him up in a 
tree, then returned for the horses. When we 
brought the horses up we lashed the deer behind 
Eleno's saddle, and rode into camp in high 
feather over our success. Eleno had carefully 
saved the intestines, and he celebrated our re¬ 
turn by cooking them on a stick and eating them 
with great gusto. He was particu'arly insistent 
that I should join him in this treat, but I de¬ 
clined. 
When Captain Funcke and J. G. M. got in 
after another unsuccessful day at sheep, we were 
animals, as it would immediately exhaust the 
water. 
We were going down the arroyo at Las Pal- 
mitas, when on looking up to the top of the 
mountain nearby we saw a perfectly enormous 
ram looking down at us. He was alone, and 
through the glasses seemed to have a larger head 
than anything we had seen. We tied the horses 
to the trees in the arroyo and Captain Funcke 
and J. G. M. started round to the side of the 
mountain where they could approach the ram 
without being seen by him, while I walked up 
and down the arroyo and kept his attention dis- 
littie cleft in the rocks. Within ten minutes 
Captain Funcke and J. G. M. showed on the 
crest of the mountain and approached cautiously. 
I had no way of signalling them that I did not 
know whether the ram was still there or not, 
but I tried to indicate that I thought he was 
lying down, but did not feel certain about it. 
At last they reached the place where the ram 
had been, but without showing any evidence of 
seeing any signs of the ram. Finally it was 
clear that he had gone and J. G. M. sat down on 
top of the mountain, while the captain came 
down to me, saying that he was going to camp 
ELEXO AND THE BUCK. 
THE PEAK WHERE J. G. M. GOT HIS RAM. 
glad to be able to feed them on deer liver and 
venison, and Captain Funcke asked me to give 
him the skin and head, as it seemed a buck was 
such a rarity in that country that he wished to 
send it to the museum at Washington, which had 
promised to pay him for the specimen. The deer 
supplied us with a great deal of good fresh 
meat, and as the weather was a little cooler, we 
were able to keep it for a number of days, and 
we lived high on steaks and roast ribs during 
that time. 
J. G. M. and Captain Funcke hunted two days 
at Las Palmitas without seeing sheep, and on 
the third day Captain Funcke, J. G. M. and I 
packed one burro with the necessaries of exist¬ 
ence and started off on horseback toward one 
of the nearly dry tanks to try another place for 
sheep. We were unable to take any number of 
tracted._ As I had a pair of very powerful 
glasses with me I looked at him for a long 
time with great interest. He was probably three- 
quarters of a mile away, and through the glasses 
his horns seemed enormous. 
After I had watched him for a short time the 
ram lay down and I sat down and studied him 
through the glass, praying and hoping that J. 
G. M. and the captain would soon make the top 
and the former would at last get his sheep. I 
calculated that it would probably take them 
about an hour to reach the top, and at the end 
of half an hour by the watch, the ram got to 
his feet again and stood looking off over the 
surrounding country, occasionally gazing at me 
and the animals in the arroyo. For fifteen 
minutes more he stood there, a wonderful and 
majestic picture, and then passed down into a 
for some lunch and water. I took a canteen 
and climbed up to the top of the mountain, where 
J. G. M. was duly grateful at having a chance 
to get a drink again after the long climb in the 
hot sun. Soon the captain reappeared with an¬ 
other canteen and some food, and after eating 
we started out along the mountain where we 
thought the ram might have gone, but though 
we followed the ridge all the afternoon, watch¬ 
ing carefully in every direction, we never saw 
any signs of him. The captain still thought there 
was a chance the next day, and he and J. G. M. 
returned to the mountain at daybreak to hunt all 
that day without success. 
When they returned at evening, J. G. M. was 
utterly discouraged. All of our time for hunt¬ 
ing in the sheep country had passed, and it was 
necessary to be starting out. We might have 
