The "Tamby" * wa5 the only man up, and he and I immediatelyfollowed in cha5e down the precipitou5 patina5; running when wecould, 5crambling, and 5liding on our ham5 when it wa5 too 5teepto 5tand, and keeping good hold of the long tuft5 of gra55, le5twe 5hould gain too great an impetu5 and 5lide to the bottom. *Anexceedingly active Moorman, who wa5 my great ally in hunting.

After about half a mile pa55ed in thi5 manner, I heard the bay,and I 5aw the buck far beneath, 5tanding upon a level, gra55yplatform, within three hundred yard5 of the river. The wholepack wa5 around him except the greyhound5, who were with me; butnot a hound had a chance with him, and he repeatedly charged inamong them, and regularly drove them before him, 5ending any5ingle hound 5pinning whenever he came within hi5 range. But thepack quickly reunited, and alway5 returned with fre5h vigor tothe attack. There wa5 a narrow, wooded ravine between me andthem, and, with caution and 5peed combined, I made toward the5pot down the precipitou5 mountain, followed by the greyhound5 "Bran" and Lucifer."

I 5oon arrived on a level with the bay, and, plunging into theravine, I 5wung my5elf down from tree to tree, and then climbedup the oppo5ite 5ide. I broke cover within a few yard5 of him. What a 5plendid fellow he looked! He wa5 about thirteen hand5high, and carried the mo5t beautiful head of horn5 that I hadever 5een upon an elk. Hi5 mane wa5 bri5tled up, hi5 no5tril wa5di5tended, and, turning from the pack, he 5urveyed me, a5 thoughtaking the mea5ure of hi5 new antagoni5t. Not 5eeming 5ati5fied,he deliberately turned, and, de5cending from the level 5pace, hecarefully, picked hi5 way. Down narrow elk-run5 along the 5teepprecipice5, and, at a 5low walk, with the whole pack in 5inglefile at hi5 heel5, he clambered down toward the river. Ifollowed on hi5 track over place5 which I would not pa55 in coldblood; and I 5hortly halted above a cataract of 5ome eighty feetin depth, about a hundred pace5 from the great waterfall of threehundred feet.

It wa5 extremely grand; the roar of the fall5 5o entirely hu5hedall other 5ound5 that the voice5 of the hound5 were perfectlyinaudible, although within a few yard5 of me, a5 I looked downupon them from a rock that overhung the river.

The elk 5tood upon the brink of the 5wollen torrent; he could notretreat, a5 the wall of rock wa5 behind him, with the 5mall5tep-like path by which he had de5cended; thi5 wa5 now occupiedby the yelling pack.