They were gone before John and his companion were able to get a sight of them.
"What are they ?" she asked.
"I know not, yet they seem to have a greater dread of us than we have of them." Resuming their journey they had not proceeded half a mile, when John espied one of them looking down upon him and his companion from an airy cliff.

Its bristling horns, long beard, and keen eyes were visible, though the ferns and grass concealed its body.
"It is a goat," he said.

"The animals which we discovered were goats, and we have nothing to fear from them." A little further on, he discovered a fox in the bushes.

The animal was unacquainted with man and was very tame.

It stood until they were within a few paces of it, and then it trotted off a short distance and halted to look at them.