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either with a waggon or pack animals through a country 

 tolerably open. Such country may still be found in 

 Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Eastern Oregon, Eastern 

 Washington, and in the uplands of British Columbia; but 

 I dare not undertake to recommend any particular spot. 



Roughly speaking, it is still possible to get wapiti, mule- 

 deer, antelope, blacktail, and bears of sorts in the States 

 I have mentioned ; but bighorn, wild goat, caribou, moose, 

 and musk-ox must be sought for in British Columbia 

 and Alaska. Mr. Baillie-Grohman suggests the Olympic 

 Mountains of Washington as a likely place for the Pacific 

 coast wapiti, which differs slightly from the " elk " of the 

 Rockies ; and into these same mountains I hope to go 

 within a few months, but I cannot as yfet claim a per- 

 sonal acquaintance with them. My brother and I were 

 in the State of Washington, close to these mountains, 

 some two years ago, but we were fishing. We learned 

 that parts of the country were open, and that game was 

 plentiful ; and we had the pleasure of seeing several fine 

 trophies which had come the year before out of the 

 Olympics, 



No matter where you go, however, it is all-important 

 to find a good guide, and from choice — as well as for 

 economical reasons — a trapper is your man ; but be sure 

 that he is a trapper and not an impostor, and make it 

 clear to him what you want. In one of my expeditions 

 the bag included bison, bear, bighorn, wapiti, mule-deer, 

 and antelope ; but that was seventeen years ago. When 

 I was in Vancouver Island in '97 I met a friend return- 

 ing \^ith an Indian from an expedition. He had shot 

 nothing ! But then he and his guide had plunged into 

 the forest. The same man shooting the year before in 

 the uplands of the Chilcotin district had enjoyed excel- 

 lent sport with both bighorn and caribou. 



The less you take from England in the way of iinpedi- 



