1 88 CAMP-FIRES IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



under the sheer mountain wall, so I ran and scrambled 

 across, jumping over some waterworn fissures. When I 

 reached the opposite wall, I saw the goat below me com- 

 ing up the ridge. Owing to the shape of the slide, I had 

 travelled only one-third the distance covered by the goat. 



" Seeing me above him, the goat thought he was 

 again cut off from the mountain, and so sought safety 

 on the face of the wall that overhung the slide. He did 

 not realize that he could easily have passed me by going 

 up the ridge before I could head him off. 



" Seeing that the goat was safe for the moment, I 

 thought of Mack, and fearing that he had fallen, went 

 back. I found him at the bottom of one of the water- 

 worn fissures. It was too wide for him to jump, so he 

 had gone down into the rock crevasse, and when I found 

 him he was on his hands and knees; and no wonder. 

 The bottom was worn quite smooth, and pitched down 

 at an angle of about sixty degrees. When he heard me 

 he looked up, and said : ' I wisht I had some of the 

 legs them octopuses had that the Professor was tellin' 

 us about! I'd shore rope myself over this ditch!' 



" When finally Mack crawled out of his trouble, we 

 went over and looked at the goat. I took a picture of 

 him from the slide, then leaving Mack in the slide with 

 my gun, I worked my way with the cameras out up on 

 the ridge, and finally secured a position above the goat. 



" I found him standing on a ledge about eighteen 

 inches wide, backed against a slight projection on the 

 face of the cliff, which cut the ledge off. The ledge 

 rose at rather a steep incline for about twenty feet up to 



