88 Sport and Life. 



Leyden, and two good specimens (male and female) in the National 

 Museum at Washington. 



The result, so far as information concerning its home went, was, 

 if possible, even more meagre than that which existed concerning 

 its appearance and its habits, &c. " The highest peaks of the 

 Rocky Mountains," where " human foot cannot follow them," 

 appeared a favourite phrase when describing their home. 



My curiosity and eagerness to kill one of those mysterious 

 animals was naturally roused to a high degree, and my next 

 expedition, undertaken the following year, had only one end 

 namely, to find goat or perish in the attempt. Several of the older 

 writers, who seemed to furnish the few at all reliable data regarding 

 the locality of its home, at best scanty information, but which the 

 rest (always with the exception of Professor Baird) had found 

 sufficiently authoritative to copy and make the most of, spoke more 

 in particular of the Pacific Coast ranges as the home of the 

 animal. Vancouver it was who, almost a century ago, had secured 

 in that region, during his renowned expedition that led to the 

 circumnavigation of Vancouver's Island, that much-prized Indian 

 breech-clout sample skin, upon which so many learned theories 

 were established. It was in consequence of this and other in- 

 formation that I made the Bitter-Root range, on the boundaries of 

 western Montana and Idaho Territory, the goal of my 1882 trip, 

 and there at last my patient hunt was rewarded by a bag of nine 

 head. Subsequent expeditions, undertaken in the years 1883, 

 1884, and 1885, however, proved to me that the true home of 

 this game is British Columbia, especially the Kootenay district, in 

 the easternmost portion of. that province, where the animal appears 

 to grow rather larger than in the coast ranges of British Columbia. 



The chase of the white "goat," -or, as it properly should be 

 called, antelope-goat, is a most exciting one, if the surmounting of 

 obstacles counts for anything. Indeed, as I look back, for purposes 

 of comparison, to the successful days I have had after chamois 

 in different parts of Europe for the unsuccessful ones, of which 

 there were a goodly number, slip one's memory with gratifying 



