vi FOREWORD 



The objects of the expedition were twofold: to 

 observe and study the habits of the various game 

 on their native ranges, and to obtain specimens of 

 the game for the collections of the individual mem- 

 bers of my party. 



Of no less importance than obtaining specimens 

 was the study of the habits of the Ovis datti, being 

 the pure white mountain sheep, and the less ob- 

 served and more rare animals, the woodland cari- 

 bou, rangifer osborni, found in large numbers in the 

 undisturbed mountain ranges, which we visited. 

 The sheep mentioned in this diary are all the Ovis 

 dalli, as we observed not a single specimen of Fan- 

 nin's sheep, nor of Stone's sheep. The caribou 

 mentioned are all the rangifer osborni, as we ob- 

 served no other specimens of the caribou family. 



For the sake of clarity and in order to enable the 

 reader to follow the movements of the expedition 

 into the interior, and more particularly as it has 

 been the writer's effort and purpose to record only 

 facts as they transpired without straying into the 

 fields of fiction, the writer has deemed the purpose 

 to be best served by a strict adherence to the facts 

 and observations set down at the time of their oc- 

 currence in his diary. 



These are the things I have seen, 



And these are the thoughts I feel, 



As I lie in the warmth of the firelight's gleam, 



Till sleep steals away my will. 



