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arrived immediately start to descend in order to 

 stalk the game, but undoubtedly it is the correct 

 method, for the reason that when you have reached 

 the high peak you can look at every herd of caribou 

 within ten miles and you look over each herd 

 through the glasses and determine which has the 

 best-looking heads. Then you take note of the to- 

 pography of the country between yourself and the 

 quarry and determine the method of your stalk, 

 whether you will try to get above, behind, or to one 

 side of them, all depending upon direction of wind 

 and natural cover. 



We decided upon a peak several miles distant, 

 rising about four thousand feet; it looked like a 

 large mountain and quite an undertaking to ascend 

 merely to have a look at the country, but we went up 

 the tundra-covered slope and finally reached the top ; 

 my 5x7 camera seemed to weigh a ton. On the 

 way up we saw a cow and a calf caribou below us 

 and from the crest we located a herd of seventy on 

 the sky line about twelve miles away. The glasses 

 showed a number of small bulls in the band and two 

 good-sized bulls, but we decided the wind was wrong 

 and the distance too great for a stalk, so turned our 

 attention to another herd about three miles away, 

 feeding on the slough grass near the foot of the gla- 

 cier. The glass showed these all to be cows, so we 

 looked over several other herds that had nothing 

 promising. 



