He broke up here and there clusters of grass that lay in the path of the track, and showed me the dry ends of some, the stumps of others, and by numerous other similar items accounted for many circumstances that astonished me.
We followed the trail over a mile.

Now and then we saw that a wolf, a fox, and other animals had practised their trailing instincts on the elk's tracks.

Here and there, he would show me where a snake, a rat, and a prairie dog had crossed the track.

Nothing had followed or crossed the track that the quick eye of Daloria did not detect.

He gave an account of the habits of all the animals that had left their footprints on the track, also of the state of the weather since the elk passed, and the effect of sunshine, winds, aridity, sand storms, and other influences that had a bearing on these tracks.".