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photographic outfit and some help to carry him 

 in, for we were short of meat at the time. It was 

 three o'clock in the afternoon when I reached camp, 

 and, eating a hasty lunch, I started back up the 

 mountain with three of my friends. 



When we again reached the carcass it was five 

 o' clock, and our work must be done hastily in order to 

 get down the mountain as far as possible before dark. 

 To add to the discomfort of our undertaking a driz- 

 zling rain set in just as I was ready to make the views. 

 I exposed a couple of plates, however, which for- 

 tunately turned out fairly. We then set to work to 

 skin him as rapidly as possible, and as soon as this 

 was accomplished we started on our return to camp, 

 two of the men taking the two hind quarters of the 

 animal, another my camera, and I the skin and head. 

 With these loads, weighing from twenty -five to 

 thirty-five pounds each, besides our rifles, and con- 

 sidering the difficult and dangerous nature of the 

 ground we had to travel over and the fact that it was 

 already beginning to grow dark, we had, indeed, a 

 perilous journey before us. Climbing over these rock 

 piles when covered with snow was difficult enough 

 work in daylight, but to attempt it in the dark- 

 ness and now that it was raining heavily, the snow 

 having become wet and slushy and the rocks more 

 slippery than before, it was doubly perilous. 



Our course lay diagonally down and along the side 

 of the mountain, and as long as the light was suffi- 

 cient to at all see where we were stepping we made 

 fair progress. Frequently, however, someone would 

 slip and fall, but fortunately without receiving any 

 serious injury. We were often compelled to hold to 



