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the 17th I came on the tracks of six or seven 

 more of these animals that had passed the day 

 before. Although I hunted ronnd for them for 

 several daj^s I never came across them, or, 

 indeed, crossed their tracks again. 



Our Canadian friends, however, from whom 

 we had parted company at the forks of the 

 Macmillan, and who were hunting in a range of 

 mountains about twenty-five miles away from 

 us, met with large numbers of caribou, as we 

 afterwards heard, and were able to pick out 

 some very fine heads. They did not, however, 

 get any good moose, and only saw three sheep — 

 a ewe, accompanied by a two-year old ram and 

 a lamb of a few months old. 



On September 15th we moved camp about 

 five miles to the head of a stream running into 

 the Clearwater Creek of MacConnell's survey. 



The weather from September Gth to the ISth 

 was, on the whole, very bad. During this time 

 we seldom had more than five or six degrees 

 of frost at night, and during the daytime it 

 often rained hard part of the day and snowed 

 during the remainder. Sometimes a bitter 



