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useless to attempt to run him down, when once alarmed and 

 in motion. He must therefore either be stalked silently from 

 the leeward, or shot down at once. 



The following description of a hunting party's encamp- 

 ment is so spirit-stirring, that we cannot pass it by : " The 

 first thing to be done on a tramp after Cariboo, is to encamp 

 for the first night, since it is rare that a single day's march 

 carries the sportsman to the scene of action. The arms are 

 stacked, or hung from the branches of the giant pines around 

 the camp; the goods are piled; the snow is scraped away 

 from a large area, and heaped into banks to windward ; a 

 tree or two is felled and a huge fire kindled ; beds are pre- 

 pared of the soft and fragrant tips of cedar and hemlock 



branches; and the party gathers about the cheerful blaze, 

 while the collops are hissing in the frying-pan, the coffee is 

 simmering in the camp-kettle, and the fish or game if the 



