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SPORT AND TRAVEL 



days to hunting, as it was important to me to get 

 back to England by the middle of December, and to 

 do that I had to make a start on November 25. 



I hunted hard these last four days, but had no luck ; 

 for though we got fresh wapiti bull tracks every 

 day, and always got sufficiently near to where the 



OPEN WATER-HOLE NEAR CAMP IN THE FROZEN RIVER 



wary beasts had been lying to frighten them from their 

 beds, we never caught a glimpse of any one of them, 

 owing to the thickness of the timber. Neither did I 

 see another mule deer buck, though I came across a 

 few does and fawns. On the twenty-fifth I started for 

 home, carrying with me as the result of three weeks' 

 hunting, two wapiti and four mule deer heads, a bag 

 with which I should have been amply satisfied, had 



