He says he thinks only a hundred or two have come.

The ground does not look to me anything like so much trampled as it was before we halted." "I tink most of dem hab come along here," the tracker said sullenly.
"What do you think ?" Reuben asked the other settlers, who had gathered round.
"I did not notice it before," Dick Caister said; "but now Blount has pointed it out, I agree with him entirely.

There are nothing like the full number of sheep have passed along here.

I should say that they have not gone along more than two or three deep." There was a general chorus of assent.
"You can't have been keeping your eyes open," Reuben said to the trackers, sharply.

"If you don't look sharp in future, we shall quarrel.
"Come, gentlemen, let us ride back to the halting place, and see if we cannot find out which way the main body have gone." Ten minutes' riding took them back to their starting place.
"They must have gone over the hill," Reuben said.