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on that side of the valley and I
every time we reached what seemed
to be the summit, a new sector is
loomed above us. We followed
the tracks of the animals into a
series of ravines which ran
down nearly opposite side up the hill,
and tried to drive them all, but it was
taking a terrible form for our hunters
and the animals escaped up
the other valleys.
My hunter did not sit on the hillside
for an hour in the icy wind. His
muscles shaking with cold and doubt
growing that he could have hit a rapine even
if it had stopped 50 feet from me.
Harry saw a young bull go
into a patch of cover on the bottom
of the valley, when his hunter
descended to drive it out, he
saw a large bull raptine
walking slowly up a ravine
not 20 yards from me but over
under the crest of the low hill
when it was out of my sight.
A little before dark we gave
up the hunt and started home,
we left the tops of the mountain by
way of a deep ravine and
which extended out to the main