Good Hunting 



species, almost equalled the multitudes 

 found in South Africa, and much sur- 

 passed those found anywhere else in 

 point of numbers, though inferior in 

 variety to those of India. 



This, however, is now a thing of the 

 past. The bison, which was the most 

 characteristic animal of the American 

 fauna, has been practically exterminated. 

 There remained in 1897, however, a fair 

 abundance of all other kinds of game. 

 Perhaps, on the whole, the one affording 

 * most sport from the stand-point of the 

 hardy and skilful hunter is the big-horn, 

 ^ though in size and in magnificence of 

 horn it is surpassed by some of the wild 

 sheep of Asia. 



There is a spice of danger in the pursuit 

 of the grizzly-bear the largest of all the 

 land bears especially in Alaska, where 

 it is even larger than its Kamtchatkan 

 brother. The moose and the wapiti 

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