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abundant than ever along- the snowy crests of the Cascade 

 Range, especially in the vicinity of Mounts Baker, llainer, 

 and St. Helen's, owing to the cessation of peltry hunting, which 

 was so vigorously prosecuted by the North- Western Fur Com- 

 pany, and the gathering of all but a few vagrant Indians on 

 the reservations. This would seem quite probable, not only 

 in that region, but in every other section that it has been 

 known to frequent ; so that it would be quite safe to state that it 

 is more numerous now than it has been for many years. From 

 inquiries among hunters, both pale and red, I should deduce that 

 it may now be found in the mountains of Manitoba, Wyoming, 

 Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington Territory; 

 but I should infer that it was more numerous in the latter than 

 in any other section of the country. Some years ago a few 

 were to be seen in a domesticated state at Deer Lodge, Mon- 

 tana; and I heard of an Indian family on the Lumni River, 

 Washington Territory, having, what is most unusual for the 

 red race, a brace of kids in their tepee so tame that they would 

 follow the children around like the spoiled and playful members 

 of the domestic species. 



To hunt goats with any degree of success requires patience, 

 perseverance, an unusual degree of caution, and a contempt for 

 arduous toil; and he who is willing to display these qualities 

 need not fear a failure. A white hunter informed me that a 

 couple of active terriers, trained to drive the animals from their 

 lairs, or to keep them at bay until the arrival of the Nimrod, 

 would be the surest means of bagging them ; otherwise one 

 could only hope to get a shot at them by accident, or unusual 

 good luck. They are not, in reality, any more difficult to 

 hunt than the big-horns, except, perhaps, that they are scarcer, 

 and frequent higher latitudes ; and in some respects the bag- 

 ging of a few would seem easier, as they lack the speed of the 

 latter, and, as a rule, run obliquely to the right and upward, 

 even if the wind is blowing in that direction. 



A good idea for a hunting party would be to send some men 

 above a flock, keeping well to the leeward, and for those below, 

 if they have no dogs, to move to the windward, and advance 

 rapidly so as to surprise the quarry. This would send them 



