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A few grizzlies and black bears wander about that 

 section of the Watson River country, but moose and cari- 

 bou seldom range there. Now, alas! Mining prospects 

 are being worked, and the sheep are practically exter- 

 minated. A sight of big game is only to be obtained 

 twenty or thirty miles farther to the west. 



October 24. I sailed from Skagway on the steamer 

 Cottage City, and left that wonderful country where I had 

 passed the summer. The voyage down the coast was 

 delightful, and continually enlivened by the hosts of gulls 

 that followed the steamer. The weather was calm, and 

 apparently as warm as when I had come up in June. 



October 29 I landed at Victoria, and immediately 

 made preparations for a trip after wapiti on the north 

 end of Vancouver Island. 



