The animals of these solitary regions were different from those they had been accustomed to.

The black-tailed deer would bound up the ravines on their approach, and the bighorn would gaze fearlessly down upon them from some impending precipice, or skip playfully from rock to rock.

These animals are only to be met with in mountainous regions.

The former is larger than the common deer, but its flesh is not equally esteemed by hunters.
It has very large ears, and the tip of the tail is black, from which it derives its name.
The bighorn is so named from its horns; which are of a great size, and twisted like those of a ram.

It is called by some the argali, by others the ibex, though differing from both of these animals.