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cott was feeling very low by reason of his poor 

 shooting. 



While Cutting's caribou was being decapitated, 

 Bettle with Baker located a bull about a mile away, 

 but in a difficult situation for a shot. They stalked 

 him for two hours and finally climbed above him, 

 from which vantage point Bettle put him out with 

 two shots in the neck. Late in the evening the two 

 successful hunters walked into camp, their horses 

 loaded with a supply of caribou meat besides the two 

 heads. Cutting's trophy is rather small with only 

 thirty-two points. Bettle's head has thirty-six 

 points, fifty-seven and one-half inches length of 

 guard horns, and thirty-eight and one-half inches 

 spread a nice medium head. 



August 19. The horse feed is very scarce about 

 this camp and the willows are few and far between, 

 so the horses have rambled off during the night. 

 We decided not to wait for the horses to be rounded 

 up, but to hunt afoot. Baker and Wolcott went up 

 the creek to the forks and took the left branch, 

 traveling in the canyon up to the glacier. 



They saw no sheep whatever until they were 

 nearly up to the ice fields; in fact, at this time of the 

 year it is almost useless to go after sheep unless you 

 are prepared to go up to the glaciers, as in summer 

 time and early fall they feed very high up on the 

 mountains on a round leaf grass growing near the 

 glacial fields. Coming up to the ice fields they saw 



