82 CAMP FIRES IN THE YUKON 



Hardly arrived in the canyon, a large caribou bull 

 was seen a mile ahead, traveling up the moraine to- 

 ward the glacier, and Hoyt with Baker went after 

 the caribou, while the writer sat down to observe 

 the sheep. For half an hour the sheep continued to 

 feed at the foot of the mountain; frequently the ewe 

 sheep would come close to where the rams were 

 feeding, and as often as this happened the male 

 sheep with lowered heads would ungallantly drive the 

 ewes away. Finally the rams started for the moun- 

 tains, traveling up a draw between two rocky ridges. 

 The ewes and lambs followed almost at once, and 

 the rams turned around and threatened the per- 

 sistent female sheep, which continued to parallel the 

 upward course of the rams at twenty paces to their 

 right, until half way to the summit the rams de- 

 liberately charged the ewes, driving and herding 

 them to the crags on the right of the draw, after 

 which the lordly males came down and crossing the 

 draw climbed to the pinnacles on the left, where they 

 lay down on the ridge. 



Baker came back to tell the writer that Hoyt had 

 stalked the caribou up on the moraine as close as 

 thirty yards and with six shots had succeeded in kill- 

 ing. After reaching Hoyt, we started to climb the 

 mountains back of the peak where the rams were 

 resting, and toiled upward for two hours on a steep 

 slope of jagged rocks until we reached the pinnacles, 

 only to observe that the rams had moved to another 



