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tributaries say, from fifty to seventy-five miles 

 south of Rampart House on the Porcupine there 

 is good moose country big moose. Fifty miles 

 north of Rampart House the caribou come in the 

 fall. One cannot very well go into that country 

 and make a hunt and come out the same season 

 unless one could go up the Porcupine in a good 

 power boat from Fort Yukon. There was no such 

 boat there two years ago. 



There are a number of streams going down into 

 the Yukon, up which a hunter can go by boat, with 

 the certainty of finding big game if he knows his 

 country and has the time and the money. Toward 

 the headwaters of the Stewart, up the Pelly and 

 its tributaries, more especially round the head of 

 the Macmillan River, there is good big-game coun- 

 try for mountain sheep of two or three varieties, 

 caribou, good moose, and sometimes good grizzlies ; 

 but it will surprise you, remote as all this district 

 sounds, to hear that the Macmillan country is often 

 visited, and that some years ago the trappers were 

 supposed to have taken the cream of the grizzly- 

 bear product. 



One of the best big-game regions on this continent 

 is around Mount McKinley in Alaska. The hunter 

 can go in via Fairbanks, where he can get outfit and 

 guides. It is not a picnic to make any of these 



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