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soundings; yet the evidence was thus
before me.
Mr sent his skin-shirt back to camp
on the back of a bundle cutter who had
joined us just before we killed the bull
and ourselves continued to hunt. My
magnificent confidence expected to find the
cows in a ravine half a mile away,
but she cover [illegible] nothing save
three rockucks. Mr descended into
the valley while Harry worked back
along the crest of some precipitous
cliffs. On the way he resembled a
gride hut did not get it. All I saw
several rockucks my hunter would
not let me shoot for fear a distinctly
other rapiti.
Sunday
Aug 3
I left the "Cam. Legatum" in the
morning and moved camp to a
better house in one of the villages
just farther up the valley and nearer
the rapiti could byest two miles.
The village consisted of half a dozen
huts, with the usual mark that
threshing floor in front of each (for
the wheat is pounded till the kernel
have left the stalk and winnowed by the
simple process of throwing it up into
the air when a weak wind is blowing.
The chaff is carried away [illegible]