1^4 THE UPPER YUKON 



be quite huge in size, but they are unstable 

 and will crack or part easily in places; in 

 other words they are no good, and are unfit 

 for fighting with or for mounting. 



This was the case with the one which I 

 killed on the first day of the season. The 

 Chief would not even consent to my taking 

 the head out as a curiosity, and therefore I 

 left it. So according to the game laws I had 

 still two rams to get, and the following day 

 after the seance with the four caribou bulls 

 we were off early in search of a big ram. 

 Nothing was seen but an occasional bunch of 

 ewes and lambs until ten o'clock had come, 

 when six rams were discovered feeding on a 

 divide opposite the one over which we were 

 traveling. Between us and the rams two 

 miles and a half had to be covered before we 

 would be near enough to shoot, and, as the 

 ground was open and we would be in full 

 view going down one side to the brook at the 

 bottom and then climbing to the top of the 

 far-off mountain, there was nothing to do but 

 to watch and wait. We tethered our horses 

 in the canyon on a good piece of grassy 

 ground and worked our way to— and up — a 

 tall pinnacle that rose high in front of the 

 feeding rams, but two miles from the quarry. 



