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the hunting during our absence. Bettle, Wolcott, 

 and Cutting had been out among the crags daily and 

 even a part of the night and had very fair shooting. 



On the day we left Bull Creek for our journey 

 to Klutlan Glacier, Wolcott with Hayden and Cut- 

 ting, and Bettle with Dixon and Albert, started up 

 to the head-waters of the St. Clair River. While 

 going over the mountain opposite our camp they 

 saw a small bunch of rams and a bull caribou on the 

 sky line. Cutting tried for the caribou, which he 

 stalked within two hundred yards, and missed; the 

 bull became frightened and ran in the direction of 

 the rams, which stampeded with the caribou, and 

 dashed across the range. Continuing their course 

 up the St. Clair, they took the left branch at the 

 forks, and camped high up the valley beyond the 

 last timber. 



Wolcott located a bunch of rams on a snow peak 

 back of camp and began a hard climb; the rams 

 moved away, however, before the hunter had pro- 

 gressed far. Another ram with a fine head was 

 located off on the ridge a considerable distance and 

 Wolcott went after him. A hard climb brought 

 him to the level of the ram and Wolcott began a 

 difficult stalk for a shot; almost within shooting dis- 

 tance the wind suddenly changed, and the wary ani- 

 mal threw up his head as he got the scent of the 

 hunter and in a flash had dashed away over the 

 mountain. Bettle, in the meantime, had located a 



