LET US GO AFIELD 



soon becomes simply a center of a shot-out game 

 field. Freight is high in that country; beef is un- 

 known. The big game of the country is used as 

 food, and the market hunters soon clean it out for 

 fifty or a hundred miles around any settlement of 

 consequence ; so you cannot so to Alaska now with 

 the certainty of an easy, pleasant, and inexpensive 

 big-game hunt. You must go "a little farther on." 

 Indeed, all over the world you hear that same old 

 story, "a little farther on" even in East Africa. 



The interior of Alaska is a pleasanter hunting 

 country, though mountainous and difficult, than is 

 the coast country. There is no more difficult or 

 unpleasant hunting country in the world than the 

 coast regions of Alaska, where it rains all the time 

 and where the forests are dense, damp, and nearly 

 impenetrable. In this vast region, along the bold 

 rivers that carry salmon, not only near the mainland 

 but on many of the great islands of the coast, there 

 are still numbers of the great brown bear of Alaska. 

 Up the Stickeen and the Iskoot Rivers you still can 

 get mountain sheep and grizzlies in the wet country. 

 It is a difficult and expensive trip to try to get a 

 good bear, as you may find for yourself. 



On Kadiak Island, farther north, the giant bears 

 have been pretty well exterminated, and the great 

 volcanic eruption of a few years ago put them still 



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