At last, we mounted a craggy height, to obtain a wide view of the country.

Prom this place, we beheld three cattle quietly browsing in a green opening of a wood below; the trees shutting them in all round.
A general re-examination of the muskets now took place, followed by a hasty lunch from the calabashes: we then started.

As we descended the mountainside the cattle were in plain sight until we entered the forest, when we lost sight of them for a moment; but only to see them again, as we crept close up to the spot where they grazed.
They were a bull, a cow, and a calf.

The cow was lying down in the shade, by the edge of the wood; the calf, sprawling out before her in the grass, licking her lips; while old Taurus himself stood close by, casting a paternal glance at this domestic little scene, and conjugally elevating his nose in the air.
"Now then," said Zeke, in a whisper, "let's take the poor creeturs while they are huddled together.

Crawl along, b'ys; crawl along.