SPORT AND TRAVEL 



have any fat about it in November, that is, shortly 

 after the rutting season. All I can say is, that two of 

 the four wapiti bulls I killed this season were fine 

 large animals, probably seven or eight years of age, 

 and that we got four or five pounds of inside fat out 

 of each of them, neither of the two younger bulls be- 

 ing in quite such good condition. By the time we had 

 finished our work with the dead bulls, it was already 

 getting late, so I decided not to again follow up the 

 wounded bull that day, but to get back to camp as 

 quickly as possible, in order to clean and prepare 

 the head skins before they froze, as they would be 

 sure to do during the coming night. 



On the following morning we made an early start 

 after the wounded wapiti, and found and killed him 

 before midday. He had not gone very far, but had 

 crossed some very steep, open pieces of ground, which, 

 being frozen, were very treacherous, and almost im- 

 passable in " gum " boots. These places we had to 

 cross on hands and knees, and this took time. We 

 finally found the wounded beast lying down in thick 

 forest, and came on him before he was aware of our 

 approach. I fired at him as he lay, and killed him 

 with a shot through the lungs. He proved to be a 

 fine large animal, with a pretty head of twelve points. 

 On examining him, we found that both my bullets 

 had struck him the previous day, though the one had 

 only inflicted a slight flesh-wound through the upper 

 part of the left hind-quarter, which would not alone 



