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cold and dark across the mountains and arrived at 

 two A.M. the following day. 



Wolcott went out the following day for sheep, 

 and climbed all the morning without seeing anything 

 except multitudes of ewes and lambs dotting the 

 mountains. In the afternoon, however, he located 

 a bunch of rams on a pinnacle and succeeded in 

 climbing above them; selecting the largest he shot 

 him through the body, but the ram got on his feet 

 and made off across the range, Wolcott and Hayden 

 following his bloody trail over the crags. About 

 dark they found him, dead, and taking the head be- 

 gan to feel their way across the mountains, using the 

 stock of their guns to pick each step as they came 

 down from the summit over the bowlder-strewn 

 slopes in the darkness. At three o'clock in the 

 morning, stiff with cold and worn to a frazzle, these 

 two stumbled to the willow patch and rolled into 

 their sleeping robes to re-st and to thaw out. 



The next day Cutting and Bettle recovered the 

 guns they had left on the glacier, together with the 

 Graflex camera, which last had been spoiled by being 

 left out and was entirely out of commission. While 

 scanning the country from one of the peaks, looking 

 for sheep, the hunters located a grizzly bear and cub 

 feeding on the carcass of Wolcott's caribou six miles 

 away on the glacier at the source of the St. Clair. 

 A number of valleys with mountains lay between 

 them and the bears, but they started out and de- 



