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under no circumstances be considered a traveller or explorer 

 (a finding with which I do not agree), and in the second case 

 that one man could not kill game for another. In this he 

 was probably correct. Suffice it that he fined Glyn $150 

 and costs, but did not confiscate his trophies, as he might 

 have done ; and for this Glyn was duly grateful. 



Little's case was more extraordinary still, as the prose- 

 cutor called two natives to prove that he had killed a sheep 

 before September i. The first native swore that he saw 

 Little shoot a sheep before September i. The second one 

 swore he saw him kill this same sheep after September i. 

 Little justly claimed that one evidence was as good as the 

 other, and that therefore the case was " Not proven." 



The Judge, however, inclined to the first evidence, and 

 fined Little $100, at which there was a good deal of surprise 

 in court. 



Here I may add, that seeing how far-reaching in effect 

 these cases would be, and having determined under any 

 circumstances to bring the whole thing correctly to the 

 notice of the officials at Washington, I engaged the services 

 of a shorthand writer to take down the evidence. This copy 

 of the proceedings was duly attested by the Judge, and 

 delivered by me to the authorities at Washington, who have 

 since displayed considerable interest in the matter, and were 

 most courteous to me when I visited them on my return 

 journey through Washington. 



If no other result arises from my efforts in the case, I 

 think it is safe to predict that visitors to the Cook's Inlet 

 country in future will not be subjected to such indignities as 

 the writer suffered. 



The whole affair afforded the residents of Kenai an un- 

 usual excitement, and, emboldened by getting two convictions, 



