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made out with my glasses to be a small stag 

 with two does and a fawn, near the top of the 

 hill to my right. 



Presently, when I had walked a couple of 

 miles or so across the open ground, I sighted 

 another small herd, which I soon saw with my 

 glasses consisted of seven animals, one of which 

 was a stag. 



The stag presently walked up to the top of a 

 stony ridge, where he stood out well against 

 the sky-line, and I could then see his horns 

 quite plainly. They seemed to me to be about 

 the length of those of an average full-grown 

 caribou stag in Newfoundland, and I judged 

 the animal that bore them, therefore, to be 

 still young — as the full-grown stags of the 

 mountain ranges of the Yukon carry very long 

 and very massive horns. 



I thought, however, that I had better 

 try and get a nearer view, and to do this 

 I had to make a somewhat lengthy stalk in 

 order to approach the herd from below the 

 wind. 



I had got within three hundred yards of the 



