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reached the bottom, well to the right of the hinds, 

 when we heard some stones move still farther to our 

 right ; and the next moment I saw a large animal trot- 

 ting amongst the trees at a distance of not more than 

 seventy or eighty yards, and as the pine-trees were here 



PREPARING TO STRIKE CAMP IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, 

 SEPTEMBER, 1897 



growing not very thickly together, soon made it out to 

 be a bull wapiti. It had evidently neither seen nor 

 scented us, but must have heard us. When I first 

 saw it, it was coming obliquely past us, and as I thought 

 it was going to stop, I waited for it to do so. It very 

 soon came to a halt, and stood broadside to me, with 



