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tracking very easy, for it was very noisy to walk in, 

 and not deep enough to prevent wapiti and deer 

 from scraping it away and feeding on the grass be- 

 neath ; and as long as they could do this they 

 remained, at any rate, by day, always in the thick 

 forests, where they knew no doubt that they were 

 practically unapproachable. 



The weather remained extraordinarily fine for the 

 time of year, and in the middle of the day the sun 

 was sometimes quite powerful, though the nights were 

 usually cold. On the night of November 7, my ther- 

 mometer registered 32 of frost, and until the i6th 

 went down to the neighbourhood of zero every night. 

 Then we had three singularly warm nights, and I find 

 a note in my journal on November 19 to the effect 

 that " last night the thermometer only just reached 

 freezing-point, and had risen above it by daylight," 

 a somewhat remarkable record, I should think, for the 

 latter half of November in the Rocky Mountains, at 

 an altitude of eight thousand or nine thousand feet 

 above sea level. The next night, however, we had 

 27 of frost. 



As regards seeing a fair number of wapiti and 

 getting the chance of picking a couple of bulls with 

 good heads, my trip was a failure; for though there 

 were doubtless a few good bulls about, and I was 

 often very near them, I never saw a really fine one, 

 and only twice saw wapiti of any kind at all. 



The first occasion was on November n. Graham 



