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historj^ than the progenitors of the various races 

 at present inhabiting Alaska and the adjacent 

 territories. 



After having watched the little flock of wild 

 sheep for some time, I got up and walked 

 towards them. They allowed me to approach 

 within about two hundred yards of them, and 

 then retreated up the side of the mountain. 

 I found that they had been feeding on grass 

 which they procured by scratching away the 

 snow, by which it was completely hidden, and 

 the leaves of stunted willow scrub, which grew 

 in all the vallej^s up to about one thousand feet 

 above the limit of tree growth. 



Further on I crossed fresh tracks of two more 

 sheep, and thinking they might be two rams, 

 though in all probability they were a ewe and 

 lamb, I followed them for a long way. 



These tracks presently crossed the spoor of 

 a small herd of caribou, which seemed to me to 

 have been feeding all over the open shoulder 

 of the mountain during the previous night. 



As I was well above the timber line, and 

 commanded a very extended view over miles 



