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and Avith the writer would have been an impossibility 

 without the aid of a rest and the telescope sight. 



Thus far all Avas very satisfactory; but when we 

 came to examine the antlers of our stag we were mor- 

 tified to find the right brow antler broken off, which 

 rendered the specimen useless. We quickly removed 

 his hide and retraced our steps to Grandfather's Look- 

 out, to find the rest of our party gone, we knew not 

 where. But inasmuch as it was not our party we 

 were looking for, we at once brought the glass to 

 focus on the landscape below us, and soon located an- 

 other herd of caribou. We were sure Kep and the 

 Kid were on the slope somewhere, though farther 

 west of us. They could, as we afterwards learned, see 

 us as well as the deer, and knew from our actions we 

 had also sighted the quarry in fact, they saw us enter 

 the thick growth of trees which covered the slope 

 for some distance below the highest point. The deer 

 were coming up the slope at an angle and in open 

 ground, in the direction of where Kep and the Kid 

 were lying flat on their bellies, expecting that in case 

 we did not get a chance at the stag, which from all 

 appearances had the finest head of any we had thus 

 far seen or killed, they might stop him as he was 

 coming their way. 



The herd was scattered about promiscuously, while 



