8o BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chap. 



hibernating. In an ordinary season, if the hunter is on his 

 ground by the first week in May, he will be in good time to 

 commence work. 



It was the intention of my friend Mr. R. F. Glyn and 

 myself when we left England on March ii, 1903, to be in 

 Alaska even earlier than the date mentioned. March 26 

 found us safely arrived in Victoria, B.C., after spending three 

 or four days in New York and Washington to get the 

 necessary shooting permits and other indispensable things. 

 In Victoria we were fortunate enough to secure the services 

 of Mr. Clifford Little as a hunter, taxidermist, and com- 

 panion on our trip. He had already made two trips to 

 Alaska on similar expeditions, and his former experience was 

 naturally of great assistance. 



Here also we were kindly elected temporary members of 

 the Union Club. This excellent Club can show quite a host 

 of well-known sportsmen amongst its members, and fortunate 

 indeed were we to find many of them there on our arrival. 

 Amongst others was Mr. Reed, to whom I have already 

 referred, part of whose magnificent collection of trophies 

 adorns the Club walls in great profusion. There may be seen 

 his record moose head, a grand specimen of 76 inches span. 

 There too is the world's record caribou head, together with 

 bear, walrus, and the white bighorn sheep (Ovis dalli) galore, 

 all showing what Alaska can still produce, and raising in the 

 heart of a hunter en route for that happy hunting-ground 

 the wildest dreams and endless possibilities of the result of 

 his own trip. 



Once in Victoria, the only thing to be done was to await 

 the departure of a steamer from Seattle. Since it appeared 

 that we could not get away before April 7, it was decided to 

 pay a visit to Cowichan Lake on Vancouver Island, where 



