A HUNTER'S CAMP-FIRES 



ewe, was perfectly white, and although at this distance, even 

 with the glasses, I could not discover any pinkness in its eyes, 

 I am reasonably certain that it was an albino. These sheep 

 had probably never been disturbed by man, and were quite 

 tame. When we rounded the next bluff, on looking backward 

 we could see them still gazing after us, bunched together two 

 hundred yards distant. 



Half a mile beyond Mac discovered two caribou in a small 

 rocky basin far below us, and we commenced a cautious descent 

 into the head of a glacier-streaked valley. Three-quarters of 

 an hour later we carefully crawled over a gravel-ridge, to dis- 

 cover ourselves within forty yards of a cow caribou accompanied 

 by a bull with a large, branching set of antlers. The cow was 

 already watching us and the bull was stiffly raising itself from 

 its stony bed when the soft-nosed bullet from my rifle pierced 

 its heart. At the report the wounded bull dashed madly down 

 the slope for one hundred yards, staggered in a circle for several 

 moments, and then rolled over and remained motionless. The 

 startled cow stared at us for a few moments, and then galloped 

 over the next rise. This bull possessed a set of antlers forty- 

 four and forty-six inches around the curve of the two horns, 

 with a spread of thirty- two inches, and carrying thirty -one 

 points. 



We now climbed the nearest moss-covered knoll, and com- 

 fortably established ourselves in the warm sunlight to examine 

 with the glasses the magnificent panorama of rolling mountains 

 spread before us. At length Mac discovered above timber-line, 

 on a distant blue range of mountains, what he claimed were 

 numerous bands of caribou. Although we hardly expected to 

 reach this country much before dark, and were not prepared, 

 to sleep out, Mac. urged on by fears that his rival in the next 

 valley might be more successful, persuaded me to commence 

 a long and hard tramp. After four hours of steady travelling 

 through swamp and brush, during which time we crossed many 



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