As I swept the glasses down the valley they passed a rock, with some-_ thing beside it suspiciously unlike a rock, and, getting these objects in ithe centre of vision, I saw that the second was a sheep lying down, which projecting from behind the real rock, could make out the head and horns Jof another. Things were starting well with a vengeance. The sheep were near the centre of the valley, some 600 yards from us and Surther from the top, and to climb to the {top and then down the opposite ridge, behind them, would be several (By kind pormissic hours job. There was a low scrub growth on our northern side of the ley which might afford cover for precarious stalk, but "the Bandit" feared that a shot fired here might larin the large herds he had marx-jed down yesterday, so, seeing that, the two in sight were in rich feeding ground, when they would -pro-ably lie up for the day, I decided to go after Chin's two lots first and, unsuccessful, to try for these two Jon the homeward trip, and we accordingly continued on our first!
Chin's "dope" was certainly found. Jed on fact for, when-we cautiously jeraned our necks over the crest of the main. ridge we spotted sheep! among the rock cliffs on the first! side ridge to the right. Backing' away a few yards from the top, be well out of sight, we skirted to ithe right along the side of the main ridge until directly behind the position of the sheep when we carefully crept upward, only to find that they had mysteriously disappeared. We! repeated the manquvre of backing, away and skirting further to the right, and on next peering over the top spotted 15 grazing on the left slope of the valley in front, situated [between the rock ridge where we had first seen them and the next rock' cliff to the south.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.