CHAPTER III 



SEARCHING FOR RAMS 1904 



July 23. The horses had disappeared, and Spahr and 

 Gage consumed a long time looking for them, and finally 

 found them not far away, standing perfectly still on a 

 side hill. On Mike we put my blanket, a narrow piece 

 of mosquito netting, the frying-pan, teapot, and a few 

 provisions. Spahr rode Shorty and Gage and I walked to 

 the divide. Arriving on top, four sheep were seen just 

 below the crest of the spur above the place where the 

 bear had been killed. They were two miles off, and 

 appeared like white specks on the mountain ; but even at 

 that distance they had seen us and were nervous, bunch- 

 ing immediately and moving about with uncertainty. 

 The glasses showed that they were rams and I quickly 

 planned a stalk. 



Going down into the ravine until out of their sight, I 

 climbed to the foot of the cliffs, from where I could 

 ascend the mountain on the west side near the peak and 

 come out above them. In the broken rocks at the foot 

 of the cliffs were numerous marmots which kept continu- 

 ally whistling, and I was fearful that they might alarm 

 the rams. The surface for two hundred yards, reaching 

 to a point not far from the top, consisted of small, loose, 



broken rock, over which I had to proceed with the great- 

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