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had been joined by another man and
horns [illegible]
ionsize.
for half an hour we waited them
while the refugees anchored. The sheep
were standing almost on the very crest
of a ridge across the river, moving
a few steps now and then but going
far from where I first
discovered them I saw that
soon they would disappear and in less than
they disappeared half an hour they filed
down still into the valley. Then we,
two, went down crossed along ridge to
the river's edge.
ascended
decidedly
The climb up the other side was
pretty stiff and there was nearly
an hour before we were joining
into the ravine where the sheep had
disappeared. They were not then in the
hunter said that he came either up
or down the valley; he could not
tell which way.
we went up first, but no sheep. Then
we crossed to the ridge where she had first
the argali and cautiously looked over
a ledge of rocks. There they
were, about 3 or 40s below, but
we in the alert for they had seen
Tonis hunter who had
carelessly
reposed himself on the crest of the ridge.