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have caused him anything but a little temporary in- 

 convenience. The other shot had gone right through 

 his left thigh and made a large wound as the bullet 

 had then expanded on the inside of the other limb. 

 Graham, however, said he thought that if he had been 

 left alone, he would have recovered from this wound 

 too ; and I am inclined to agree with him, as flesh- 

 wounds, however severe, seldom kill either wild ani- 

 mals or healthy men. 



Ill 



ALTHOUGH in the short time at my disposal I saw no 

 wild sheep, and but few wapiti, I was somewhat more 

 fortunate with mule deer, as I killed four fine bucks 

 of this handsome species, the only four I fired at, 

 two of which carried really good heads, strong in the 

 beam and widespread, whilst the other two were quite 

 good enough to make handsome trophies. 



The death of the first of these deer I have already 

 described. The second I shot two days later on 

 November 8. I had gone out by myself Graham 

 having again had to look for strayed horses and 

 after crossing the river had climbed a thickly timbered 

 shoulder of the mountain just opposite our camp. 

 On the top of this shoulder I found an open piece 

 of ground, which in summer would probably have 

 been as gay with flowers as an Alpine meadow, but 

 now was a white expanse of snow a foot or so in 



