Observing a remarkable hill bearing 312 degrees about twenty miles distant, steered for it; the country became more level, with grass and brushwood; at 3.5 turned north to a steep granite hill, crossing a dry watercourse thirty yards wide and sixteen feet deep trending north-west; at 4.40 halted in a gully in the granite range, and obtained water by digging among the rocks.

At 4.40 bivouacked on a large gully trending northwards, with several small pools of water in a rocky bed of gneiss, containing numerous small garnets.

At 10.0 passed a large sandy hill, covered with short scrub, and halted at 11.0 in a grassy gully in the bottom of a wide scrubby valley; at 12.45 p.m. again resumed our journey, and ascending the sandy downs, at 1.15 gained the highest ridge.

All at once he made a second fall, and, instead of recovering, went headlong down into a gully, fully a dozen feet in depth.

We must work up along the next gully parallel with them and get a slap at 'em over the edge.

Bending double so as not to be seen, the two scurried up the parallel gully until they reckoned that they must be on a level with the gun and its crew.

'It's going to be a stalk now,' whispered Roy, and dropping on hands and knees, crept cautiously over the side of the gully.

Springing up, he dropped into the far gully and began to run towards the gun.

'Now for the gun,' said Ken, as he dropped back into the gully.

'There's about twenty Turks coming hard up the next gully,' he panted.

Which way are we to go?' As he spoke a shout came from the next gully.

The two other alternatives were to make off to the right or to go straight back up the gully.

But going to the right meant that they would have to climb the right-hand wall of the gully, which was much steeper and higher than that to the left.

'We must go back up the gully, Roy,' he said sharply.

'I fancy I see him giving us any parole.' He whipped round as he spoke, and the two set to running steadily up the gully.

Union Farm: described, 61, 62; fishery on, 65; gully upon, 66; new brick barn after Young's plans built upon, 117; financial return from in 1798, 287.

He sat up and perceived he was on a little alp at the foot of a vast precipice, that was grooved by the gully down which he and his snow had come.

Below him it seemed there was a precipice equally steep, but behind the snow in the gully he found a sort of chimney-cleft dripping with snow-water down which a desperate man might venture.

For example, if one went so, up that gully and to that chimney there, then one might come out high among those stunted pines that ran round in a sort of shelf and rose still higher and higher as it passed above the gorge.

It was several minutes before I even ventured to creep up the sand-spit into the denser blackness of the over-hanging bank, but, once there safely, I discovered the drift had landed me at the mouth of a narrow gully, apparently a mere crevice in the rocky shore-line.

CHAPTER XVIII OVERHEARD CONVERSATION It was a little gully, hardly more than a tramped footpath, leading down the bank up which we crept until we attained the level.

A deep, narrow gully into which I had to lead Foxie and carefully coax him out took so much time that when I once more reached a level I could not hear the hounds or get an answer to my signal cry.

To our great chagrin we found it necessary to retrace our steps, and when we did get over the deep gully, so much time had elapsed that we despaired of coming up with Jim.

I retired a hundred yards or more to a gully which favoured me, and crept to my left up the hill.

Down by a deep gully cut by the rains a yearling steer was feeding, and I took the rifle and crawled down near him and put first one ball through him, and then another, before he fell dead on the other side of the wash, when we sprang with all the agility of a deer.