The Experiment of a Cadet

"I was delighted with the country and the manner of life. It was my daily business to go up to a certain high mountain and down one of its spurs under the flat in order to make sure that no sheep had crossed their boundaries," he says. "There were not above 800 of them, and, being all breeding ewes, they were pretty quiet." He adds: 'It is surprising how soon the eye becomes accustomed to missing 20 sheep out of two or three hundred'