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arrived in perfect condition. A month later, Charlie 

 Smith brought to us from his Elk River ranch the two 

 goats and the sheep, mentioned above. They,, also, ar- 

 rived in good health, and the five novelties from the 

 Rockies were duly placed on exhibition in the New York 

 Zoological Park. 



All went well until in August, 1905, when the goats 

 began to have trouble with their digestive organs. One 

 by one they were attacked by gastro-enteritis, the incur- 

 able curse of all North American hoofed animals on the 

 Atlantic coast near tidewater, and in September, 1905, 

 all four of the goats went the way of all flesh. 



But we were not wholly bereft. Before I started for 

 British Columbia the Zoological Society learned that its 

 standing order for more goats was ready to be filled at 

 Fort Steele, with five animals. Accordingly I arranged 

 that they should be delivered to me at that point, and by 

 me be personally conducted to New York. 



On October i, our three guides and cook, after sev- 

 eral days of awful trail-cutting through down timber, 

 finally succeeded in getting our pack train out of the 

 mountains and into Michel. We worked until midnight, 

 packing up and shipping eastward our boxes of museum 

 specimens and trophies. On October 2, I went to Fort 

 Steele, received the five little goats from James White, 

 — who showed real feeling at parting from his pets, — 

 and the long run home began. So many persons have 

 asked me how we get our rarest wild animals, I am 

 tempted to add a few lines regarding the transit of 

 Oreamnos. 



