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Like the Alp-climbing ibex of Europe, our mountaineer is said to plunge headlong down the faces of sheer precipices, and alight on his big horns. I know only two hunters who claim to have actually witnessed this feat; I never was so fortunate. They describe the act as a diving head-foremost.
All three rose to their feet, and were about starting forward to secure the prize; when a shrill scream twice repeated fell upon their ears coming down apparently from the top of the cliffs, or rather from the mountain that trended still higher above them. Could it be the cry of the conquering ibex his slogan of triumph? No; it was not his voice, nor that of a quadruped of any kind.
The striking appearance of the ibex is chiefly owing to the noble horns: which nature has bestowed upon it. In full-grown animals the horns, which curve gracefully over the shoulders, are from three to four feet in length along the curve, and about eleven inches in circumference at the base. Very few attain a greater length than four feet; but I have heard of their being three inches longer.
He sat with a Remington across his knee and lived over again one long hot day in the hills to the west of Berenice, during which he had stalked a lion across stony, open country, and killed him at three hundred yards just before sunset. Another talked to him, too, of his first ibex shot in the Khor Baraka, and of antelope stalked in the mountains northward of Suakin.
I've written to Peter, reminding him of his promise, and asking about the Pasadena bungalow. It seems the one way out. I'm tired of living like an Alpine ibex, all day long above the snow-line. I'm tired of this blind alley of inaction. I'm tired of decisions deferred and threats evaded.
These movements were not made in silence: for the falcons, as they flew, kept uttering their shrill cries that sounded like the voice of a pair of angry vixens. "Their young must be near?" suggested Karl. "No, sahib," said Ossaroo, "no nest no chickee. Fritz he hab suppa de piece ob meat ob da ibex. Churk wantee take de dog suppa away." "Oh! Fritz is eating something, is he?" said Caspar.
There is game, ibex and leopard, in these mountains; but the traveller, unless a man of leisure, must not expect to shoot or even to sight it. There remained work to do before we could leave El-Muwaylah.
After this came home to her although she was always haunted by terror lest any accident should befall him Ayesha insisted upon his going out to kill the wild sheep and the ibex, which lived in numbers on the mountain ridges, placing him in the charge of the chiefs and huntsmen of the Tribes, with whom thus he became well acquainted.
"You have told me everything?" "So far as I remember." "And all that you have told me happened in the spring?" "The spring of last year," said Willoughby. "Yes. I want to ask you a question. Why did you not bring this feather to me last summer?" "Last year my leave was short. I spent it in the hills north of Suakin after ibex." "I see," said Ethne, quietly; "I hope you had good sport."
"`The ibex are wary animals, gifted with very sharp sight and an acute sense of smell. They are very easily alarmed, and so wild, that a single shot fired at a flock is often sufficient to drive them away from that particular range of hills they may be upon. Even if not fired at, the appearance of a human being near their haunt is not unfrequently attended with the same result.
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