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all the mountains we could hope to reach in a day's 

 climb. For an hour we searched the range through 

 our glasses without being able to pick up a single 

 sheep. We then decided to go back to our camp on 

 Bull Creek, and accordingly made our way down 

 the mountain to our willow patch, saddled the 

 horses, and started down the moraine beside the 

 glacier. 



At 5.30 we turned for a last look at the ten-mile- 

 wide mass of Klutlan Glacier, extending back into 

 the heart of the range, and then made our way 

 across the low tundra toward Count Creek, which 

 we were unable to reach so we camped on the 

 tundra for the night. 



August 27. Making an early start, a couple of 

 hours' travel brought us to the bottom of Count 

 Creek Canyon, which we crossed over, and led our 

 horses up the other side and began our climb across 

 the tundra-covered mountains toward the St. Clair. 

 On the way over the mountains we saw over one 

 hundred caribou in different bands, but none of the 

 bulls had interesting heads. Before descending the 

 mountain we located three moose feeding in a pond 

 four miles away down in the timber, our glasses dis- 

 closed the moose to be cows, so we were not diverted 

 from our objective point on Bull Creek. 



About noon we reached the bottoms of St. Clair 

 River and headed up Bull Creek, over whose rocky 

 course we were picking our slow way, when within 



