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heard, that sheep and goats leap or jump great dis- 

 tances and land, not on their feet, but on their horns. 

 Permit the writer to say to any such reader that no 

 more untrue or ridiculous story than this concerning 

 the habits of game has been told, since the ancient 

 days when the German chieftains told the credulous 

 Caesar of hunting the unicorn by hiding behind a 

 tree and inducing the horned beast to rush at the 

 tree that protected them and, driving his horn deep 

 into the trunk, thus render himself helpless. 



After studying this patriarch of the sheep family 

 for some time, we rolled him down the mountain 

 and dressed him, taking the meat and packing it on 

 our horses. From the summit of the pass we saw 

 the beginning of a creek which we decided must be 

 Bull Creek, as it was the only one visible in the maze 

 of mountains. Accordingly our course lay along 

 the stream, and three miles down a willow patch 

 with some small grass growing on a bench seemed 

 to answer Dixon's vague description of our camping 

 ground. We had hardly unsaddled our animals, 

 when Albert the Indian appeared and told us he had 

 left the pack train several hours before to tell us 

 the animals were having a hard time on the moun- 

 tains and probably would not get across that night. 



Our tents and sleeping robes, with frying pan and 

 grub, were back with the pack train somewhere on 

 the mountains, but our inventory of immediate as- 

 sets disclosed a small tea pail, some tea, and our 



