AND OTHER HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



nature of 'the rocks and ice, absolutely impossible 

 for the hunters to follow them on foot, but the 

 intrepid officer, not to be baffled in the pursuit, tied a 

 long rope securely around his body, just under his 

 arms, laid down, and gr sping his rifle slid quietly 

 down, on a bed of ice, some sixty or seventy feet, 

 while his companions held on to the other end of the 

 rope and controlled his perilous descent. Finally, 

 when he had gone far enough to be able to see the 

 game, he signaled his friends, who stopped him, and 

 raising on his elbows he fired and killed both goats, 

 and was then drawn up again in safety. Such, 

 however, was the nature of the rocks between him 

 and the carcasses that it was utterly impossible to 

 reach them after he had killed them, and he was 

 ompelled reluctantly to abandon them. Several 

 members of the party tried to reach them from 

 other points, but were unable to do so, and they 

 were all obliged to return empty-handed to 

 camp. 



In another instance this same officer, upon crawl- 

 ing out on the edge of a shelving rock and looking 

 down over a precipice hundreds of feet below, saw 

 two goats near the base, but they were actually inside 

 of a perpendicular line running down from the edge 

 of the rock he occupied, and he was therefore unable 

 to bring bis rifle to bear upon them without x>roject- 

 ing his body out over the edge of the rock further 

 than was safe. After discussing the matter for 

 some minutes, one of his friends offered to hold his 

 feet and thus enable him to extend his head and 

 shoulders far enough out to get his aim. By this 

 means both of the goats were killed, but a party 



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