CAMERA SHOTS AT BIG GAME 39 



not like too much of it — it shuts out his grass and other food; 

 besides, the coyote can get too close. It is a difficult camping- 

 ground, — no timber, no water, except in the smaller gulches. 

 However, the dead sage-brush is the best of fire-wood, and sage- 

 hens, than which no barn-yard fowl is better meat, abound. 

 The morning after our arrival we rose early, to find that as 

 soon as it was light the antelope were coming to water in herds 

 of all sizes. After breakfast they came right up to the tent, 

 and I crawled to one corner carefully, and exposed on a buck 

 that had approached to within forty yards (No. 17) to rec- 

 onnoitre, — a large band, at a safe distance, awaiting the verdict. 

 Soon they were coming, thick and fast, about the springs 

 which seep from the gravelly rock in the gulch bottom. We 

 worked down into the gulch and rapidly approached the 

 springs, mindful of the wind. There was another spring, in 

 the next gulch, about half a mile away, over a low hill, and 

 the greater number seemed to be going to that. But a group 

 of ten came right round behind, so that they could see the 

 camera. I kept the camera turned upon them until they were 

 outlined on a ridge against the sky, directly under the sun, about 

 one hundred yards away, when I exposed. (No. 18.) The 

 negative shows, in the foreground, some prickly-pear cactus, 

 a lot of rabbitweed, a few sage-brush, and, on the ridge, the 

 antelope. 



Next morning I went over to the other spring, and, finding 

 a side gulch that came in near the water, pulled a quantity of 

 green sage- and rabbit-brush and made a blind that the quarry's 



