The title is a misnomer: sixtysomething Erhard Jorgensen, an expat Dane, may live in a remote shack with only two goats for company, but, as a taxi driver-cum-piano tuner, he's familiar to many of the islanders.
After stumbling upon Clay's Web site (highuintapackgoats.com), I'd arranged the trip via e-mail, reserving four goats for 10 days, with plans to tackle the nearby Highline Trail, which Clay recommended.
Later someone told me that the groom had paid a bride price of ten camels and twenty goats for his mystery woman, a figure that was considered dangerously inflationary.
Saraswati got her current job raising three goats for Samridhi "because of my poverty status," she admits.
It didn't look like that, she said, when she left the two alpacas and horse at Zuma Beach to find shelter for other animals, including five goats waiting for her in her Mini Cooper.
In Somalia the price of the cereal red sorghum has risen by 240% in the last year, and a 90kg bag of maize is bartered for five goats now instead of one.
Touching of the hind limbs during testing of proprioceptive deficits elicited kicking or restless movement in four of the five goats, including the goat kept for monitoring of clinical progression (GZ1100), although it had not been observed at the first examination.
"They sold five goats and one cow to pay for my passage to Libya.
After that, codified value systems may have emerged from the penalties that tribes meted out for various wrongdoings: twenty goats, say, for killing someone's brother.
