LIST OF MAMMALS OBTAINED IN THE EXPEDITION TO THE 

 OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS, WASHINGTON, 1898. BY D. G. 

 ELLIOT, F. R. S. E. 



The Expedition to the Olympic Mountains, authorized by the 

 Executive Committee of the Field Columbian Museum, left Chicago 

 on the i6th July, 1898, going via Seattle to Port Angeles,- on the 

 Straits of Fuca. At Port Angeles most of the outfitting was accom- 

 plished, and on the 24th July, the pack train, consisting of nine 

 horses, carrying our camp equipage, and conducted by six men, 

 left the town, and started on the journey into the interior of the 

 Mountains, which loomed grand and massive before us, their rugged 

 sides and towering peaks, many of them crowned with snow, shadowed 

 in the clear waters of the sea that washed the shore at their feet. 

 The first day we only traveled about ten miles, along a well-made 

 road, that is intended eventually to reach Lakes Southerland and 

 Crescent, the most important bodies of fresh water in this remote 

 corner of Washington. From our camp, known as MacDonald's 

 ranch, there was only a narrow trail running along the eastern 

 bank of the Elwah River, which rushes and boils with a wonder- 

 ful rapidity and force in its headlong march to the sea. The trail 

 by no means keeps near to the stream, but mounts occasionally 

 several hundred feet above it, and one, from these heights, can 

 look down, almost perpendicularly at times, through the forest 

 of mighty trees, and catch here and there amid the foliage, glimpses 

 of the foam-covered, troubled waters. 



Our difficulties of the march commenced at the beginning, for one 

 of the horses, while attempting to pass a slippery spot on the trail, missed 

 his footing, and rolled with his pack some fifty feet into the valley 

 below. He struck on his back with a force that awoke all the echoes 

 of the mountains, and we hastened to where he had fallen, expecting 

 to meet only a mangled body, instead of which we found he had 

 struggled to his feet, and was yawning mightily as if he had just 

 awoke from a sound sleep. He had struck squarely on his back, 

 and as he happened to be carrying the bedding, the soft blankets, etc., 



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