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sight below. About the middle of the afternoon Osgood 

 came along on the crest and I pointed out the caribou, 

 which had then wandered about fifty feet from the snow- 

 bank. As he started in that direction, it returned and 

 lay down on the snow. Osgood had seen seven ewes 

 and lambs on a high spur running south from the range, 

 and was approaching to see if any rams were near. 



I walked on observing the ewes, which were now feed- 

 ing on the top of the spur, and while proceeding could 

 soon look down on the basin from which Osgood had 

 ascended. Just beyond the range that I was following 

 was a chain of peaks, the second of which was, to the 

 sight, the highest visible anywhere in the whole region. 

 I determined to climb it. It was rough and steep, and 

 the last hundred yards were difficult to surmount, but 

 finally I reached the top. From this peak I could look 

 down on both sides of the spur and into two pretty crystal 

 lakes lying in a narrow space between it and the next 

 range, which shot up into cliffs, culminating in the high 

 jagged crest of a mountain chain running north and 

 south. 



Streams of water could be heard leaping down from 

 the surrounding snow to form the lakes. It was per- 

 fectly clear, and I sat down to enjoy the extended moun- 

 tain panorama. After taking several photographs of the 

 landscape, I left my rucksack and the kodak where I had 

 been sitting, and descended a short distance along the 

 rim to look over into a canon beyond. When I had gone 

 a few hundred feet I heard the sound of falling rocks 

 not fifty feet in front, and suddenly seven ewes and lambs 



