CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 5 



animals for sale. In the summer season there is no 

 trapping, so these seekers of fur for a couple of 

 months during the summer, and for the considera- 

 tion of ten dollars per day, become guides for 

 sportsmen desiring to visit the particular game fields 

 with which the guides may be familiar. Oliver 

 Wolcott, Griscom Bettle, Alfred Hoyt, Heyward 

 Cutting, and the writer composed the expedition to 

 visit the game ranges mentioned, and after consid- 

 erable effort and an even greater delay due to irreg- 

 ular and slow mail communications with the interior, 

 promising guides were engaged for the expedition. 



Next to having the proper guides, the element of 

 suitable equipment is important in a successful ex- 

 pedition into the interior. The outfit is the usual 

 pack-horse equipment, since all provisions, personal 

 outfit, and camp impedimenta must be loaded on the 

 pack animals, and consists of pack saddles, alforjas 

 (being canvas receptacles with leather loops to fit 

 over the horns of the pack saddles and big enough 

 to carry about one hundred pounds on each side of 

 the horse), hitch ropes, canvas pack-covers, pack- 

 horse bells, hobbles, horseshoeing outfit. For rid- 

 ing horses one must have saddles, bridles, gun boot 

 or scabbard to carry rifle, and war bag or saddle bag 

 to carry such small items as one may frequently re- 

 quire while on the trail. 



One's personal equipment permits of but little 

 latitude, since one is limited as to the amount of 



