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directly above the rams, Dixon started from below 

 the band to stalk up in plain sight in order to frighten 

 the sheep and stampede them up the mountains to 

 Bettle. As Dixon stalked up, the rams became 

 alarmed and started upward, but the snow became 

 deeper as the rams went higher, until they were 

 floundering around shoulder deep and unable to 

 make their way higher up through the drift. Then 

 they turned upon Dixon, who had no gun, and 

 massed together with lowered heads the band 

 charged down upon the guide who blockaded their 

 downward path to safety, and the guide wisely re- 

 moved himself from their course, while the rams 

 dashed past him in headlong flight. 



As it is snowing hard again to-night we have held 

 a council and decided that in view of the continued 

 snows it behooves us to get part of our outfit and 

 trophies across the mountains before the snow be- 

 comes too deep to block our retreat. Accordingly 

 Wolcott and the writer plan to start to-morrow 

 morning, if the weather is favorable, and with Baker 

 and Hayden attempt to force our way across the 

 range to the valley of the Wolverine and make our 

 way out and down Kluane Lake to the Slims River, 

 where we will go up to the glacier and hunt goats. 

 George Wright will take a number of pack horses 

 loaded with trophies and provisions, and relay them 

 as far as the cabin at the junction of the Wolverine 

 and Donjeck. In the meantime, as horse feed is 



