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to where the two wapiti were lying, and then find 

 the deer, and it was late when we got the heads and 

 neck skins of the former and the carcasses of the 

 latter down to the ponies. We did not carry them, 

 but slid them down the steep mountain-side on the 

 snow. They never went far at a time before be- 

 ing stopped by a tree. The carcasses of the wapiti 

 were afterwards used by a trapper for bait. 



The next morning, October 20, I again went out 

 alone, and, coming on some fresh wapiti tracks, 

 followed them, and came nicely up to seven hinds 

 in rather open ground, high up the mountain-side. 

 There was no bull with them, however, so I did not 

 interfere with them. 



On October 21, I went out with Graham, and we 

 had not ascended the valley of the main river above 

 our camp for more than a couple of miles when we 

 came on the track of a wapiti stag, which seemed to 

 have passed the preceding evening. We soon saw 

 that there was something wrong with one of his fore 

 legs, which was either broken or injured in such a 

 way that he could not put his weight upon it. Now 

 one might think that it would be a pretty easy matter 

 to track up and overtake in deep snow so heavy an 

 animal as a wapiti stag. I certainly thought so 

 when we first found his track, but gradually became 

 undeceived. 



After an hour's tracking always going uphill 

 - we came to a place where the disabled beast had 



