IN THE ALASKA-YUKON GAMELANDS 



battle started or terminated, yet I drew from his 

 manner that it was not staged exactly according 

 to Marquis of Queensbury rules. He told me 

 that of the four goats stretched out before us, 

 Cap had killed three and he one out of a band of 

 twenty-four; furthermore, that Cap had opened 

 fire on them first at a distance of sixty yards, 

 killing a nanny, a 3-year-old and a kid; Harry 

 killed a nanny as she scrambled over the green 

 sward in her effort to get away. 



As we needed another lamb, and as a small 

 band comprising a lamb was at that time hover- 

 ing around the precipices 500 feet above" and 

 half a mile away, I decided to try for it while my 

 companions finished the dressing of those already 

 killed. On my way up I noticed a lone goat in 

 the ledges above the others that I was stalking, 

 he having been seen by me in the same position 

 an hour or two before. Evidently he was an old 

 billie, as he acted different in remaining alone 

 than I thought a nanny would. My path in 

 stalking the group containing the lamb led me 

 straight toward the billie, who was higher than 

 they and 400 yards farther away. I didn't use 

 the glasses on him, and he was so far away that I 

 couldn't tell the sex. While sneaking on the 

 small band (which were nervously running back 

 and forth, but hidden at times from my sight 

 by a shoulder of the mountain), I had not 

 thought seriously of trying for him, yet when 

 later the little bunch disappeared, as per gun 



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