352 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



The following morning I was just preparing 

 to clean the headskin of the stag I had shot 

 the previous day, when Thomas, who had gone 

 to the creek to get water, called out that he 

 could see a caribou just on the edge of the 

 plateau above our camp, and that he thought 

 he was a big one. When I went out with my 

 glasses he was just standing on the sky-line, 

 and I saw at once that his horns were very 

 long. 



I had no difficulty in getting up to and 

 killing this stag. I found him lying down 

 amongst some willow scrub just beyond the 

 brow of the hill. His horns were quite clear 

 of velvet and very long, measuring fifty-five 

 inches over the curve, with a spread of forty- 

 eight inches (inside measurement). Coghlan 

 and Thomas took several photographs of him 

 before cutting him up, and then brought his 

 head and the best of the meat down to 

 camp. 



By the evening I had got both the headskins 

 cleaned, and my men had cut all the meat off 

 the skulls, which, on the following day, they 



