94 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



present a solid front to a wolf as they stand upon a 

 ledge the wolf does not press the attack, but slinks 

 away. 



About seven o'clock Dixon had circled the moun- 

 tain and had skillfully driven the thirty-two rams 

 above the glacier into a pocket, from which the sheep 

 could not possibly escape as the walls were perpen- 

 dicular. Cutting and Bettle had been doing some 

 strenuous climbing in the meantime, to reach the 

 pocket where Dixon had the rams so secure that the 

 hunters could shoot them at a range of twenty feet. 

 Darkness was rapidly shrouding the peaks, when 

 Cutting and Bettle climbed to the glacier within one 

 hundred and fifty yards of the thirty-two rams bot- 

 tled up by the guide in the pocket. 



Dixon tried to get the hunters to travel just an- 

 other hundred yards and pick out the best head, but 

 the hunters confessed to having reached the limit of 

 their power to travel onward and upward and at 

 one hundred and fifty yards in the dusk began to 

 shoot at the huddled mass of rams, killing four of 

 them before they desisted. It was really a pity they 

 did not in some way manage to get closer, as their 

 indiscriminate shooting brought them two small but 

 perfect heads, while the other heads they had killed 

 were broken off at the points. However, they were 

 at such a point of exhaustion that they left their 

 guns and camera up on the glacier rather than carry 

 them back to camp, whither they stumbled in the 



