GREAT-GAME FIELDS 



more to the bad. The Alaskan Peninsula, across 

 from Kadiak, was a splendid country for caribou 

 and the giant brown bear until very recently. The 

 volcano did not help any. Those great bears were 

 shot down remorselessly by hunting parties from all 

 over the world. The species is not extinct but it is 

 far more difficult to make a good hunt there now 

 than it was even five years ago. 



If you have a private yacht of your own and can 

 afford to go out for a cruise of two or three years 

 along the coast of Alaska, round Dutch Harbor and 

 north of the Aleutian Islands, you can surely get 

 big brown bears all you want of them. You can 

 even push up far enough north to get a polar bear, 

 which, for the average man, is out of the question 

 unless he has time to take a voyage on a whaler or 

 unless he is located at some point within touch of the 

 Arctic Ocean. 



While you are about it, with your private yacht 

 which, of course, is a mere bagatelle for you and 

 me and others of our best people you might as well 

 go over to Siberia. In that country you can get, 

 perhaps, one of the great trophies of the world the 

 mountain tiger of Siberia and upper China. Per- 

 haps you have seen one of those thick-furred robes, 

 beautifully striped and much superior to the tiger of 

 India in beauty. Personally I believe I would as 



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