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the caribou followed all along it, ii ntil they reached 

 the settlement through which they proceeded 

 to pass. The inhabitants turned out en masse, 

 and are said to have killed six hundred of them. 

 One big stag put its head into an open cabin 

 door, and could not withdraw its great wide- 

 spreading horns, and was killed with an axe by 

 a man who was inside the cabin. 



With all these agencies at work upon its 

 destruction, no doubt game is being rapidly 

 killed off in certain areas of Alaska and the 

 Yukon territory, but vast stretches of country 

 still remain where no gold has been found. 

 There the game is practically unmolested, 

 and I hope and believe that for ages yet to 

 come, moose, caribou, wild sheep and bears, 

 in certain districts of these vast territories, 

 ^ill continue to find safe retreats, in which 

 they wiU be but seldom disturbed by either 

 white or Indian hunters. 



On the morning of August 10th, the day 

 after we had passed the farm on the lower 

 Pelly, I was walking along the bank of the 

 river, about a mile ahead of the canoe, when I 



