riioto by C.cui-ge Sliiras, 3rd 
TWO YOUNG FEATTIKRLESS CORMORANTS IN NEST, ABOUT 8 DAYS OLD: THE SMOOTH 
AND SHINY BACKS AND THE BLUNT LIEADS MAKE THEM RESEMBLE TURTLES 
forecast by the barometer. For the then 
and future identification, we called this 
Double-bay camp. 
The erection of the tents, the manu- 
facture of camp furniture, and the set- 
ting up of the light sheet-iron Klondike 
stove took the remainder of the day. 
Towards evening I ventured back into 
the forest to look for signs or the sight 
of a moose, for we were now in the home 
of the Alec gigas, and the several large 
runways on either side of the tents 
showed that we were then trespassing 
upon one of the main thoroughfares 
around the lake. Hut no fresh signs of 
any kind were found. 
At dusk the guides saw, from a near-by 
knoll, five moose wading in the shallow 
waters of a pond a mile and a half dis- 
tant. This sight went far to sustain the 
information upon which the present 
camp was located. 
Selecting a good game country does 
not of itself imply individual success, 
thou eh of course the main element in 
such. All wild animals of the larger kind 
have a particular range, or cover, in an 
extensive region, and quite often change 
these systematically, according to the 
season, or arbitrarily, according to the 
conditions of the weather and food 
supply. Therefore, before starting for 
.Vlaska, it was deemed no more impor- 
tant to go to a good game region than it 
was to go to the best part of it, for the 
allotted time was too limited for deter- 
mining the latter by personal investiga- 
tion. It is the too frequent lack of this 
kind of foresight which so often brings 
bitter disappointment to hundr' Is. who 
feel assured of success simply because of 
tb.cir entrv into a country reputed to be 
swarming with game. 
Tf my advance information were cor- 
rect — and it came from several sources — 
it meant that I would find, to a certainty, 
more or less moose in an area of less 
than a square mile, and at a period of 
the year when they were hardest to lo- 
cate, while the white sheep were to be 
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