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mile of their quarry, when the wind shifted as wind 

 has the disagreeable habit of doing; the sheep got 

 the scent of the hunters, and they were obliged to 

 return to camp for the day. 



Hoyt and Wolcott with Baker went down the 

 Donjeck about twelve miles looking for bears, but 

 while they saw numerous diggings where the griz- 

 zlies had been hunting gophers and mice, nothing 

 in the bear line came in sight. They located six 

 caribou, however, on a bench, but on using the 

 glasses it was observed that the heads were small, 

 so they did not try for them. We have berated 

 Jim and his hunters rather unmercifully because the 

 camp is out of fresh meat and yet they deliberately 

 turned back from a meat supply, but Dixon told them 

 his hunters and the writer would bring in meat sup- 

 ply even if we didn't get any heads worth while, so 

 it is a bit far fetched to blame Baker for not get- 

 ting meat. The ham, however, had an unusually 

 salty taste that night. 



August 18. We decided to move our camp far- 

 ther into the mountains on the head-waters of Wol- 

 verine Creek, and to hunt across the caribou bar- 

 rens while the pack train follows the easier course 

 along the bottom of the creek. Arrived at the point 

 where we went through the pass on yesterday's fruit- 

 less hunt, Hoyt and the writer located six rams on 

 a mountain four miles up the creek so we decided 

 to go after the rams, while Wolcott, Bettle, and 



