22 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



— Appearance of Indians seen at Selkirk — Enter the 

 Pelly River — Slight accident — Passage of the Canyon 

 — Enter the Macniillan River — Few tracks of game 

 seen — Scarcity of birds — Leave the "Emma Nott " 

 — Make a start with our canoes — Strong stream — 

 Meet Mr. Armstrong — Mr. Sheldon and I proceed 

 alone up the North Fork — Some account of the 

 beaver — Louis Cardinal's story — Moose cow shot — 

 Tameness of the calf — Photographed by Mr. Sheldon 

 — Moose meat hung up, but finally eaten by bears. 



CHAPTER V. 



HOW WE FARED IN THE YUKON 

 MOUNTATNS. 



Water bitterly cold — Remarkable beaver dam — 

 Bull moose near camp at night — The trajjpers Earr 

 and Crosby — Hardships of a trapper's life — Barr's 

 adventure with a moose — Bear seen — Reach the foot 

 of mountain range — Numbers of moose in the Yukon 

 comitiy — Can-ying a pack — Start in a snow storm — 

 Bull moose shot — Wild sheep seen — Affinities of the 

 various races of the American wild sheep — Two 

 caribou bulls shot — A noble picture — Size and weiglit 

 of caribou — Bad weather — An Aiirora Borealis — A 

 soul stirring display — ISli'. Sheldon's curious expe- 

 rience with a moose cow — Second moose bull shot — 

 An inconvenient snow storm — A heavy task — Floun- 

 dering through a willow swamp in tJie dark. 



