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shot at him, though the thickness of the timber, and 

 the impossibility of walking noiselessly in the snow, 

 would have been all in favour of the wary beast we 

 were after; but nothing short of a miracle could have 

 enabled us to have approached within shot of him 

 after he had taken up his position for the day. 



VIEW NEAR OUR CAMP IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, NOVEMBER, 1898 



We followed his tracks down to the stream at the 

 bottom of the ravine, and then after a short rest started 

 back for camp. Late in the afternoon, as we were ap- 

 proaching the main river, we came suddenly upon a 

 broken transverse gully along the bottom of which 

 grew a lot of thick cotton wood scrub. "There now!" 



