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and keep to certain restricted areas, it is 

 difficult to find them unless one can move 

 camp continually and look over a lot of 

 country. 



On September 14tli, whilst Coghlan and 

 Thomas were carrying the caribou heads down 

 to the river, I crossed the plateau to the left 

 of our camp, making for the head of a deep 

 thickly-timbered ravine, the bottom of which 

 I intended to follow for some miles in the hope 

 of coming across a moose. 



I had just reached the further side of the 

 level ground and was looking down into the 

 ravine below me, when I saw a small flock of 

 wild sheep on the hillside opposite. There were 

 seventeen of them, all ewes and lambs. I 

 could see them very plainly through my glasses, 

 and watched them feeding about for more than 

 an hour. 



Although the heads and necks of all these 



sheep appeared to be snow-white, their backs 



and sides were of various shades of grey. Most 



of them were only slightly coloured, but two, 



and these both immature animals, were quite 



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