1^6 THE UPPER YUKON 



white bodies showing boldly against the 

 green. 



At 2.30 a flock of young rams appeared on 

 the top of their peak and commenced to feed 

 down the mountain. There were with them 

 two old "banished" rams, who seemed to be 

 nervously watching the six rams in front of 

 us. The Chief said that when all of the 

 youngsters should come in sight of the 

 "big six," the old fellows would start a 

 stampede, and the youngsters as well as the 

 two big ones would run down and across to 

 our side, and up over our divide. Then the 

 "big six" would follow them at their leisure. 

 This was done to the letter. The flock of 

 youngsters and the two discarded rams num- 

 bered in all thirty-one. They came down 

 and crossed the canyon, climbed up our side, 

 and soon disappeared from view. The "big 

 six" were now up and in motion. Soon they 

 commenced to run down as the others had 

 done. They hesitated, however, in the can- 

 yon, and we could not see them down there 

 as we were not close enough to the edge of 

 the mountain. So for a while we had to 

 conjecture as to which way they would take 

 in climbing past us. If they went to the left 



