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as well as grizzlies, in addition to the game jnentioned above. 

 However, we were obliged to get back to the settlements, as 

 our provisions were exhausted, and all our horses were so over- 

 burdened with trophies that it was impossible to travel farther. 



On the morning of September 13th we piled our outfit on the 

 catamaran, and, with the horses swimming behind, poled across 

 the outlet, which was about four hundred yards wide at this 

 point. Packing our horses on the opposite shore, we travelled 

 about five miles through burnt timber up the mountain. The 

 pack-train in action was now a cheerful sight. The remaining 

 saddle-horse, packed with hides and sheep and goat heads, led the 

 procession, followed by the four pack-horses with various loads, 

 each topped with a set of moose antlers that swayed from side 

 to side with the motion of the horse. We camped about one 

 o'clock in some beiTy-patches at timber-line. During the after- 

 noon we gathered a quantity of berries, which the cook sweet- 

 ened with what remained of the sugar, making a delicious jam 

 that lasted us four days. All the next day we travelled steadily 

 along the summit of a mountain range through a grass and 

 moss-covered landscape. The Indians said that for some un- 

 known reason game never frequented this sort of country. 

 We came across several flocks of ptarmigan in the course of 

 the day, out of which we killed enough birds for the next 

 meal. 



About noon we discovered a black wolf loping along a bare 

 ridge ahead of the pack-train, and after a hurried stalk, Howe, 

 Mac, and I succeeded in crawling up to within fifty yards of 

 where it had stopped to dig a gopher out of its den. The wolf 

 saw me as I brought the carbine to my shoulder and whirled 

 immediately, with the result that I fired too hastily and missed. 

 As it loped away along the ridge we both fired twice without 

 scoring. Hearing wolves howling, Howe hurried over the 

 ridge in time to see three gray wolves, which had evidently 

 been quite close at the time of the shooting, but which were 



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