Three minutes later Baree came to the blind end of the canyon--a wall of rock that rose straight up like the curve of a dish.

Feasting on fish and long hours of sleep had fattened him, and he was half winded as he sought vainly for an exit.

He was at the far end of the dishlike curve of rock, without a bush or a clump of grass to hide him, when Pierrot and Nepeese saw him again.

Nepeese made straight toward him.

Pierrot, foreseeing what Baree would do, hurried to the left, at right angles to the end of the canyon.
In and out among the rocks Baree sought swiftly for a way of escape.