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duplication, I have included my narrative of it, not only 

 because most of my hunting was directed toward the 

 finding of sheep and consequently differed from his, but 

 also to make my record of the wilderness country more 

 complete. Selous has also described his later trip to the 

 South Fork of the MacMillan, where he found the 

 woodland caribou, Rangifer osborni, abundant. Dur- 

 ing my wanderings, I met with these animals but once, 

 and then my observation was limited to a cow and her calf. 



None of the annals of "breaking the wilderness" have 

 been enriched by more romance than that of the advance 

 of mining interests in Yukon Territory and Alaska. This 

 has been told in several good books, which also include 

 descriptions of the Lewes and Yukon Rivers. There- 

 fore all allusions to the well-known routes of travel and 

 the settled parts of the Territory have been excluded from 

 my narrative. But I have included a short trip up the 

 Katzehin River, near Skagway the gateway to Yukon 

 Territory. For those interested in natural history studies, 

 chapter XX, which includes a discussion of the variations 

 of the sheep, and also short remarks on some other an- 

 imals, has been added to the narrative. 



A general map of Yukon Territory, including my hunt- 

 ing camps, is inserted at the beginning of chapter XX. 



Appendices are added, giving: (A) a list of books 

 and other publications relating to Sport, Natural History, 

 Exploration, and the Topography of the Territory; (B) 

 a list of the animals and fishes mentioned in the present 

 volume, with their scientific names; (C) reproductions of 

 the original descriptions of the northern species of sheep 

 (descriptions written when knowledge of the sheep was 

 very limited); (D) measurements of some of the sheep 

 killed ; and (E) a record of the time of travelling by canoe 

 down the Pelly River. 



