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which they never attempt during daylight, except in such 

 regions as their enemy, man, seldom or never intrudes. 



Although this game is far from scarce, the traveler 

 through their habitat would imagine that such was the 

 case, from the few opportunities offered of seeing them 

 alive; but if attention be paid to all that surrounds his 



BIG-HORN. 



path and who that is a hunter does not do so when in 

 regions where danger ever besets him? he will discover 

 such quantities of skulls, horns, and bones that tell as plain- 

 ly as words can express, that he is traversing the feeding- 

 grounds of numerous invisible herds. I have occasionally 

 been vouchsafed a shot at the big horn when least expect- 

 ed; but so seldom has this occurred, that such episodes 



