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As for mountain goats, neither the goats nor their 

 tracks could be seen with plain eye-glasses, or the most 

 powerful binoculars, and they were constrained to re- 

 turn on the following Sunday night, without game of 

 any kind outside of the rich experience which they 

 had. 



It had been agreed that Drs. Koe, Dr. Hughes and 

 the writer should all come together again on Sunday, 

 the 3d day of October, as the Koe brothers were to 

 start for home on the Monday morning following. I 

 expected that Dr. Hughes would stay over with me for 

 yet another stage. 



Dr. Hughes finally decided that he must go with 

 the other two hunters, and the writer was equally 

 determined that he would stay until the next stage, 

 and leave early on the following Thursday morning, 

 hoping in the meantime that he might be able to see 

 and to get a shot at a grizzly. That having been the 

 prime object of the trip, he was loath to leave without 

 its accomplishment. 



Therefore, according to program, the other three 

 hunters were off at an early hour Monday morning to 

 cross the trail to Barkerville, taking all six horses with 

 them, and also a telegram to be forwarded to Phila- 

 delphia that I would be out by the following stage. 



The writer's mind had been for a couple of days 

 centred upon the possibility that the carcass of the 

 black bear which was still lying on the burnt land five 



