Taking his halter and encouraging him to rise, I led him a few yards up the hill, when he again braced himself and I desisted.

There he ate _zacate_.

Presently we took another turn, mounted a little higher up the hill, where he stopped again.

A little later we made another journey, and again halted.

Just then I heard an indian boy of fourteen years calling from the cliff above me in great excitement, "_Senor, un animal_" (An animal, sir).