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hope of discovering one of these bears and of completely 

 verifying the reports of them. Two of the members of 

 my party, in exploring a part of the country adjacent to 

 the Generc Glacier, discovered a fox pen and remains of a 

 camp, where, in the spring of the year, two natives had 

 made their headquarters while they engaged in the enter- 

 prise of capturing live cross and silver fox pups. These 

 two members of my party also found about the deserted 

 camp two ruined and worthless bear skins much eaten by 

 rabbits and rotted by weather, but the color of such fur as 

 remained was a slate blue. In view of the reports of the 

 blue bears and the ruined, slate-blue skins found by mem- 

 bers of my own expedition, I trust the next expedition to 

 this region may take the time and effort necessary to a 

 complete investigation of the matter, as it would be par- 

 ticularly desirable to examine, study, and classify these re- 

 ported bears. 



MOUNTAIN GOATS 



The only place in the territory covered where we found 

 mountain goats was at the head of the Slims River, in the 

 mountains bordering the Glacier. Their location at this 

 point is rather remarkable to the writer, as it is about one 

 hundred miles from the Pacific coast as the crow flies, and 

 goats, with this exception only, as far as the writer is able 

 to ascertain, are found exclusively in the humid belt of the 

 mountains along the Pacific coast and never across the St. 

 Elias Range on the easterly slopes; yet there they were at 

 the head of the Slims River in large numbers. The writer 

 also talked with a band of Indians who had a number of goat 

 skins which they claimed to have taken along the mountains 



