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each species or you are liable to find you are everlastingly hurrying, 

 which is a most fatal thing to do. If you get your sheep easily, then 

 go after goats ; but if you have spent much time over your sheep, do 

 not bother about goats, as you can easily get them anywhere later on. 



By the third week in September you should have got both your 

 sheep and goats and have moved camp to the moose-grounds, which 

 are generally in close proximity to the sheep; they now have their 

 horns quite free of velvet, which is not the case early in September. 

 Unless vou are extremely particular about your heads, ten days at 

 the outside ought to be enough to get a couple of moose, but it greatly 

 depends which country you are in : as a general rule, the farther north 

 the more moose, the farther south the more sheep, and farther east the 

 more caribou; so if you have a particular fancy for any one of these 

 species you can govern yourself accordingly. 



Unless you are very unlucky you will get your caribou easily, and 

 if you are to the east of Dease Lake should be able to pick almost any 

 sort of a head you choose. 



The end of the third week in October should find you on your 

 wav back to A'ancouver, and if you do not waste any time you can get 

 into the Lillooet District and have a couple of weeks after the Ovis 

 canadensis. Sheep-stalking in Lillooet is grand work, as, while there 

 are plent\- of good rams left, they are very wild and will tax your 

 utmost skill ; still, considering the excellent supply of guides Lillooet 

 is blest with, you ought to have no difiiculty in getting a man who wall 

 give you a fair chance at a nice ram. The season for sheep closes 

 on November 15th, and then is the time for mule-deer; the season 

 for mule-deer does not close till December 15th, and as the Lillooet 

 District is the pick of the Province for this game, you have plenty of 

 time to get all the heads you are allowed, and a goat or two as well, 

 if you have not already got them. 



This trip should be over by the end of November, and if you 

 contented yourself with two caribou in Cassiar you might go on up 

 the line to Sicamous, and from there on the \"ernon line to Mara, 

 from which point you can get into the caribou-grounds in a day's 

 ride. In this district you could get a specimen of the black or mountain 

 caribou and a good chance of a shot at a grizzly if the winter has not 

 come on early. The season for caribou closes at the end of December, 

 and you will now have to return to the coast and hunt wolves and 

 cougars. On \'ancouver Island the latter are very numerous, but 

 you must have a man with a regular cougar-dog, as there is very little 

 use trying to stalk them. You may also get a shot at a wolf, especially 

 if you go to the west coast. 



