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Indians can now procure pabulum in an easier manner than 

 by laboriously following it amidst the snow -enshrouded 

 mountains which it selects for a home. The amateur hunt- 

 er who would, therefore, slay a large number must move 

 to the distant regions of the North-west, and there he will 

 find little cause to complain of ill-luck. Few creatures are 



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more difficult of approach than the big-horn, for, like all 

 mountain animals, it is exceedingly keen of scent, unusu- 

 ally vigilant, and so cautious that it carefully reconnoitres 

 a country from an elevated stand-point ere it presumes to 

 advance toward it. The Nimrod who would, therefore, 

 place the heads of many among his trophies of the chase, 



