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bull caribou, roaming about feeding on white moss 

 across the valley and high up on the mountains. 

 The cover for stalking was very poor, but by climb- 

 ing hard the hunter came within two hundred yards 

 of the bull and killed him with two shots, after 

 which the head was skinned out. Bettle's caribou 

 is really very beautiful with long guard horns and 

 good beam, besides excellent and symmetrical brow 

 points. The head is not wonderfully large, but it 

 is fair size and quite the best specimen we have seen 

 thus far. 



On the second day out Wolcott located a bull 

 caribou with good head, up on the glacier at the 

 head of the river. A long stalk from the place 

 where they left the horses brought him within shoot- 

 ing range. Wolcott wounded the animal, which 

 made off at a slow pace. After following for sev- 

 eral miles he came up with the game, and killed, 

 after which Jack Hayden skinned out the head. 

 Cutting and Bettle with Albert and Dixon made a 

 difficult climb to the peaks that rise above the glacier 

 on the left of the St. Clair, and came to a paradise 

 for rams. On looking over several bands they 

 found that there were a number in each band that 

 had imperfect heads, in that one of the horns were 

 broken off or broomed at the points from fighting, 

 but they selected a band that had two very large and 

 perfect heads and began to stalk them. 



Hard and slow climbing brought them within a 



