SIXTH CHAPTER 

 SHEEP, MOOSE AND CARIBOU 



TX/E should hardly have been human if 

 ^^ we were not tired the next morning — in 

 fact, we arose about how and when we 

 pleased. This long-distance hunting was begin- 

 ning to "get" us, for where the James branch of 

 our party hunted yesterday it was eleven miles 

 from camp. That was much too far to travel 

 and hunt, especially as it necessitated returning 

 to camp at midnight, besides another trip next 

 day by the packers for the hides, bones and meat. 

 This could have been avoided to a great extent 

 by side packs from main camp into closer prox- 

 imity to the game — a plan that both Harry and I 

 adopted when we hunted in this section on our 

 return trip. 



Longley, Rogers, Wooden and Shorty left 

 camp at 9 o'clock to get the skins and meat of 

 five of the sheep killed the day previous (Harry's 

 sheep hide and meat having been taken in with 

 the hunting party). These boys also hoped to 

 get a ram or two from among those that had 

 been seen the day before. At 7 p. m. Longley 

 and Rogers returned to camp, reporting that 



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