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one, as it numbered in addition to Mr. Cameron 

 (the manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce 

 in Dawson), Mr. Patterson, Judge Dugas and 

 myself, as well as three American gentlemen 

 who had been hunting and collecting specimens 

 of natural history at the head of Coal Creek in 

 the Ogilvie Mountains, and who, now wishing 

 to visit a new district, had agreed to share the 

 expenses of chartering the steamer to the head 

 of the navigable portion of the Macmillan. 

 These three American gentlemen were Mr. Charles 

 Sheldon, a first-rate sportsman and naturalist, 

 Mr. Wilfred Osgood, of the American biological 

 survey, a pupil of Dr. Merriam's, and one of the 

 most competent and energetic of American 

 field naturalists — who are second to none in 

 the world — and Mr. Carl Rungius, a German by 

 birth, but a naturalised American, who is 

 making a name for himself as a painter of 

 American big game, the habits of which he has 

 been carefully studying for some years past 

 in their native haunts. In addition to these 

 seven principals there were our hired men. 

 The Canadians had two French Canadians 



