1 88 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



under the sheer mountain wall, so I ran and scrambled 

 across, jumping over some waterworn fissures. When I 

 reached the opposite wall, I saw the goat below me com- 

 ing up the ridge. Owing to the shape of the slide, I had 

 travelled only one-third the distance covered by the goat. 



" Seeing me above him, the goat thought he was 

 again cut off from the mountain, and so sougl . safety 

 on the face of the wall that overhung the slide. He did 

 not realize that he could easily have passed me by going 

 up the ridge before I could head him off. 



" Seeing that the goat was safe for the moment, I 

 thought of Mack, and fearing that he had fallen, went 

 back. I found him at the bottom of one of the water- 

 worn fissures. It was too wide for him to jump, so he 

 had gone down into the rock crevasse, and when I found 

 him he was on his hands and knees; and no wonder. 

 The bottom was worn quite smooth, and pitched down 

 at an angle of about sixty degrees. When he heard me 

 he looked up, and said: 'I wisht I had some of the 

 legs them octopuses had that the Professor was tellin' 

 us about! I'd shore rope myself over this ditch!' 



" When finally Mack crawled out of his trouble, we 

 went over and looked at the goat. I took a picture of 

 him from the slide, then leaving Mack in the slide with 

 my gun, I worked my way with the cameras out up on 

 the ridge, and finally secured a position above the goat. 



" I found him standing on a ledge about eighteen 

 inches wide, backed against a slight projection on the 

 face of the cliff, which cut the ledge off. The ledge 

 rose at rather a steep incline for about twenty feet up to 



