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the other moose on account of the numerous snags which 

 stood between us, but the animals were moving and 

 present!}' we identified at least four good heads. Two 

 seemed to be exceptionally large. One of these had a 

 very light-colored skin and the horns were light yellow. 

 The other moose had broader antlers and a dark skin. 

 These two largest made as if to engage in a fight wath 

 each other, but presently abandoned this intention and 

 after clashing their horns together a few times, fell 

 instead to browsing upon the willow tips. It seemed 

 inadvisable to fire on either of these animals, for we had 

 not well looked over the country and we had already seen 

 about fifty moose. Accordingly we crawled carefully 

 back over the many windfalls, through the green timber 

 and up the canyon at the foot of the bare lookout from 

 which we had seen the large moose and got home after 

 the moon rose, well satisfied with our first day's recon- 

 naissance. 



Alex and Fritz had meantime been to the lake, taking 

 the moose scalp with them, and brought back enough 

 provisions to last us another week. Once more we 

 enjoyed the luxury of fresh raised bread. Hot cakes we 

 had, of course, every morning from the sour-dough which 

 was prepared each day. Fritz now got the moose horns 

 from the dike and carried them to the lake while Alex 

 shot a half dozen grouse for supper. Bill and I took the 

 same walk as on the day before and saw about fifty 

 moose, including five or six large ones. The wind was 

 not very favorable for stalking them and we came home 

 betimes. 



On the next day we investigated the same country 

 from a different side. Instead of going over the hills to 

 the north of the burned slope, we struck west from the 



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