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The little animal was fed on diluted condensed milk, and was 

 put in a corral made of saplings. It became at once very tame, 

 but insisted upon being close to its captor, and was induced 

 finally to sleep under Mr. Loring's blanket. The lamb was io>^ 

 inches high at the shoulder, weighed eight and a half pounds, 

 and had four front teeth. It lived about three days, and then 

 faded slowly and died, in spite of all efforts to keep it alive. 



Meantime a storm had swept over the mountains, and appar- 

 ently had driven away the small bunches of ewes which the ex- 

 pedition had under observation. A change in the location of 

 the camp was made to a point lower down the river, where 

 sheep had been seen in previous years. The new camp was 

 located so that a wide sweep of mountains could be kept con- 

 stantly under the observation of field-glasses, which the party 

 took turns in using. Two bunches of ewes, containing five and 

 twelve ewes respectively, were located, and later a single ewe 

 with a lamb was seen. After a very hard climb the ewe and her 

 lamb were surrounded, and the latter captured. This lamb 

 proved to be only a few hours old. During the efforts to 

 capture it another ewe and lamb were located close at hand, and 

 one of the Indians sent after it; he succeeded in capturing it. 

 This second lamb proved to be much stronger than either of the 

 former captures. When taken back to camp the two lambs were 

 perfectly happy together, and bade fair for several days to sur- 

 vive the diet. They were placed in a movable wire cage, and 

 slept at night in the tent with Mr. Loring under his blanket. 



After a day or so the smaller lamb began to sicken, and was 

 fed with Nestle's baby-food in place of condensed milk. This 

 seemed to answer the purpose for a while, but both the lambs 

 became worse suddenly, and died on June 6th. It was then so 

 late in the season that further efforts to capture lambs was out 

 of the question, and the party returned to Tyonek, where they 

 found that two young moose had been captured by the Indians, 

 but both died before coming into the possession of Mr. Loring. 



This expedition has demonstrated the practicability of captur- 

 ing young sheep alive, but how they can be fed after capture is 

 another question. This might be solved by taking into camp 

 milch goats or domestic sheep. The extremely tender age at 

 which the wild lambs must be captured is, of course, greatly 

 against their survival, but it is bv no means impossible that 



