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When the fine season came round again, they would regularly hunt those musmons which had been seen on the expedition to Mount Franklin, and the wool once collected, the engineer would know how to make it into strong warm stuff....How?
Skins of carnivora or the wool of ruminants must be procured at any price, and since there were plenty of musmons, it was agreed to consult on the means of forming a flock which might be brought up for the use of the colony.
The most important and most urgent was the establishment of a bridge over the Mercy, so as to form a communication with the southern part of the island and Granite House; then the making of an enclosure for the musmons or other woolly animals which they wished to capture.
It had been decided that a corral should be established near the sources of the Red Creek, at the foot of Mount Franklin, destined to contain the ruminants, whose presence would have been troublesome at Granite House, and especially for the musmons, who were to supply the wool for the settlers' winter garments.
This enclosure would be large enough to contain a hundred musmons and wild goats, with all the young ones they might produce.
These buildings had also to be made very strong, for musmons are powerful animals, and their first fury was to be feared.
The maneuver consisted simply in surrounding the musmons and goats, and gradually narrowing the circle around them.
The musmons were very numerous in this part of the island.
Of a hundred musmons which had been surrounded, more than two-thirds escaped, but at last, thirty of these animals and ten wild goats were gradually driven back towards the corral, the open door of which appearing to offer a means of escape, they rushed in and were prisoners.
In the corral, the flock of musmons had also increased, and several lambs already bleated in the sheds, to the great delight of Neb and Herbert, who had each their favorite among these newcomers.
The musmons in the corral had been stripped of their wool, and this precious textile material was now to be transformed into stuff.
Now the wool furnished by the musmons was composed of very short hairs, and was in a good condition to be felted.
The corral was enlarged, for the flock of musmons and goats had been increased by a number of young ones, who had to be housed and fed.
They had plenty of felt clothing, and the musmons, very numerous by this time, had furnished an abundance of wool necessary for the manufacture of this warm material.
The musmons and the goats, sleeping no doubt in their huts, in no way disturbed the calm of night.
Goats and musmons gambolled among the rocks.
Every other day one of the settlers, driving the cart or mounted on an onager, went to look after the flock of musmons and goats and bring back the supply of milk required by Neb.
Before everything it was necessary to go to the corral, where the flocks of musmons and goats were enclosed, and replenish the provision of forage for those animals.
Ayrton then proceeded to enter the corral, and, while awaiting the engineer's return, busied himself with the musmons and goats which seemed to feel a certain uneasiness in presence of these first signs of an eruption.
The cries of the terrified musmons and goats indicated the alarm which possessed them.