IV. 



THE WHITE SHEEP OF KENAI PENINSULA 



The last of July Blake and I sailed from the 

 Kadiak Islands, and one week later were landed 

 at the little settlement of Kenai, on the Kenai 

 Peninsula. 



The mountains of this region are unquestion- 

 ably the finest big-game shooting grounds in 

 North America at the present day. Here one may 

 expect to find four different kinds of bears black, 

 two species of brown, and the Alaska grizzly the 

 largest of moose, and the Kenai form of the white 

 sheep (Ovis dalli). 



These hills lie back from the coast some thirty 

 miles, and may be reached by one of several rivers. 

 It takes a couple of days to ascend some of these 

 streams, but we determined to select a country 

 more difficult to enter, thinking it would be less 

 often visited by the local native hunters. We 

 therefore chose the mountains lying adjacent to 

 the Kenai Lake a district which it took from a 

 week to ten days to reach. 



On August 14, shortly after noon, we started up 

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