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harmless but necessary animals, as they make 

 a good meal at any time of the year, but more 

 particularly in the fall when they're fat and 

 in prime condition. We shot quite a few of 

 them on the journey, together with plenty of 

 grouse and ptarmigan, and they made an ac- 

 ceptable addition to our food supply. 



When we got to the mountain sheep country 

 and tasted for the first time the flesh of a three- 

 year-old mountain ram, however, we didn't 

 hanker much for rabbit meat. 



On the sixteenth our first full day's travel 

 we covered twenty-six miles, crossing the 

 Takiki River, a deep and swift-running 

 stream, by means of a cable. The ferry was 

 run by the rapid current carrying a raft at- 

 tached to the cable with our outfit loaded on 

 it. At this crossing we had our first noonday 

 dinner in the open. Later, as we journeyed 

 on, Louie Jaquotte regaled me with stories of 

 what they did during the cold winters and 

 how they lived. He was eloquent in his des- 

 cription of the usefulness of the husky dogs 

 in the Yukon. He had more or less to do with 

 the huskies, and he recited the incidents of one 

 journey of three hundred and twenty-three 

 miles which he covered with his own dog team 

 in nine days. The dogs were fed principally 



