Gnowangerup History

So if the strange friendship was to continue, the sheep had to become an expert tracker if he was going to find his friends again after one of these frequent stampedes.
If when out mustering with the Yamagees, we happened to cut across the tracks of the stampeding cattle and the sheep, the Yamagees always insisted on following them for a while, just to see what had been happening.
As they read tracks in much the same way as we read books, they can extract a tremendous lot of information by just looking at them. After they had explained the tracks, it was then easy enough for me to see what had made them burst out laughing.
In spite of the fact that the tracks of the stampeding cattle were always very plain to see, this sheep never followed them by sight by always by their scent, by the same method as a Bloodhound would have used.
When you think of it, that is the best way to track, as you would not then be confused by other tracks that crossed over the ones you wished to follow.
Unfortunately as man's sense of smell is so inferior to animals, he has to rely on his sight if he wishes to follow tracks.
The sheep's method did cause some problems to him, as when galloping along with his nose near the ground, he was apt to stumble over fallen trees in his path.
This fact was plainly recorded in his tracks and was always good for a laugh from the Yamagees, when his tracks revealed what had happened.
I was not lucky enough to see the sheep with his nose almost on the ground tracking his friends, but the Yamagees reported that on more than one occasion they had seen him tracking in that way”.