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that these mountain goats have a very long, thick 

 under-coat of white wool, while the domestic goat 

 has only a hairy coat; but, on the other hand, the 

 domestic sheep has a coat of wool, while the white 

 mountain sheep has no wool whatever, its pellage 

 consisting of rather coarse hair of a maximum win- 

 ter length of three inches. 



Baker had filled a canvas bag with goat fat and 

 goat meat, the latter being for our frypan, so we 

 loaded ourselves with camera, rifle, heads, hides, 

 and meat, and with arms full of plunder and with 

 various things strapped to our backs began to work 

 our way downward, sometimes falling on the rocks, 

 sometimes sliding a short distance, but with no bad 

 results except minor bruises. We began to feel that 

 the bottom of the canyon was quite near when we 

 saw Wolcott and Hayden, as mere fly specks, wait- 

 ing for us as they sat on the bowlders and enjoyed 

 our weird descent. 



As we walked down the canyon, following the 

 creek to our camp, Wolcott told me that after leav- 

 ing us Hayden and himself had climbed to the upper 

 end of the canyon into which the two goats had 

 vanished and had located the game, climbing the 

 walls on the other side four hundred yards away. 

 Since it was impossible to get a closer range, he had 

 begun shooting and after several wide shots finally 

 killed the goat, to reach which presented difficult 

 problems of descent. Wolcott finally selected a 



