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our camping ground, I suddenly saw a black 

 object moving across a snow patch about half- 

 a-mile across the valley. 



Leaving Kirby and Lansdown to pitch the 

 camp I took Thomson with me, and getting 

 within about 500 yards of the snow patch, saw 

 what looked like a small bear, but as Thomson 

 said, " I never saw a bear with a long tail." 

 The animal was moving quickly over the snow 

 and getting closer every minute to a patch of 

 dense cover. No doubt it was a wolverine. I 

 had a long shot at about 400 yards and knocked 

 up the snow under his belly. In a moment 

 he was in the cover and we never saw him 

 again. 



Further up towards the head of the valley 

 we saw a bear moving across a patch of snow, 

 but he, too, disappeared in the cover. Evening 

 was now closing in, so we turned towards camp. 

 About a mile away, just opposite the camp and 

 on some almost precipitous rocks a goat sud- 

 denly came into view round a corner of the 

 rock. He must have been lying down all the 

 time out of sight, and it was bad luck not having 

 seen him before, for though to climb the face 

 of the cliff was impossible, we might have got 

 a long shot from below ; as it was, by the time 

 we had got up to the foot of the cliff, it was too 



