no CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



town. This is the only record of the kind that ever 

 has come to me, but there is one other of a fearfully 

 injured goat, which I fully believe was hurt in an 

 avalanche. 



Late in the spring of 1902, when Mr. G. O. Shields 

 was taking photographs in the Rocky Mountains of 

 British Columbia, he found on a small mountain-pasture 

 a goat which for several days remained in one spot. At 

 last his curiosity was aroused, and on procuring a par- 

 ticularly good view of the animal through a powerful 

 field-glass, he found that it had been seriously injured 

 by some accident. " Its face was badly cut and torn," 

 says Mr. Shields, " and a section of its nose some six 

 inches long, extending from about the eyes to the tip of 

 the nose, was an open sore. There was also a wound in 

 one shoulder. I told Mr. Wright, the guide, that I 

 thought it would be best to go up and see what the 

 trouble was with this animal. 



" He went, and Coleman with him. They easily got 

 within fifty yards of the goat, and found that the entire 

 upper portion of its face [muzzle] had been torn off, 

 and that the nostrils were exposed and bleeding. They 

 naturally concluded that as soon as warm weather and 

 flies came, the goat would die from the effects of its mis- 

 fortune. Accordingly they crawled up, made several 

 photographs of the goat in various positions, then killed 

 it, in order to put it out of its misery." 



Mr, Shields believes that the carrying away of the 

 goat's face was done in some manner by a snow-slide, in 

 which the goat's head was held very firmly while either 



