140 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



The rest of us went back to our neglected lunch 

 and had about finished when Cutting, having aban- 

 doned the wounded bear, returned to our cook fire. 

 After we had finished, Cutting, with Albert, decided 

 to take up the tracking of the bear, while Dixon 

 and the writer continued on about five miles to a 

 reconnoissance of the moose country. 



When Cutting had first abandoned the grizzly's 

 trail, the animal traveled a mile, where Baker and 

 Bettle saw him jumping along two hundred and 

 fifty yards away, but he had disappeared before 

 Bettle could put the gun on him. About a mile 

 farther Hoyt and Hayden saw him seventy-five 

 yards away, running through a swale, and though 

 the shooting was difficult, because the game was visi- 

 ble for a moment only, Hoyt hit him at the first shot 

 and then finished him with five more well-aimed 

 shots. Cutting and Albert, hearing the shooting, 

 came in that direction and found Hayden skinning 

 out the grizzly, after which they all started back to 

 camp. 



Dixon and the writer continued on above timber 

 line across some high tundra-covered mountains, 

 that finally ended in an almost perpendicular wall 

 which dropped down several thousand feet to a six- 

 mile-wide valley, fairly well timbered and contain- 

 ing a number of lakes. We searched the valley for 

 an hour or two with the glasses without discovering 

 any moose, but the writer decided it looked a prom- 



