Photo by George Shiras, 3rcl 
BUNCH O]? SHEEP, WHICH WERE BADLY FRIGHTENED WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED, 
RUNNING UP A ROUGH MOUNTAIN (SEE PAGE 486) 
How this accident happened is, of 
course, a matter of surmise ; but not un- 
likely the mother had rushed in between 
her young- and the edge of the great cliff 
as it gamboled recklessly near, and slip- 
ping over left her offspring wondering at 
the audacity of the leap. But be this as 
it may, we know that when time passed 
and the mother failed to return the little 
fellow by a circuitous trail reached the 
bottom of the pass, to be no nearer than 
before to the only one it loved. 
Let us trust that before the long hours 
of the summer day had passed the little 
lamb saw a white line zigzagging into 
the valley, which he dimly knew was the 
pastoral range of his mother's clan, and 
approaching found a welcome within the 
ranks, and no less so because he came 
alone. 
SUMMARY OE GAME CONDITIONS ON THE 
PENINSULA 
On our return from the mountain 
country the camp was located at the fur- 
ther end of Caribou Island, a. few miles 
west of Double-bay camp, and opposite 
the moose lick. 
This island is about three-quarters of 
a mile long, with a maximum width of 
a third, and, excepting a few acres of 
pine, is covered with a vigorous second 
growth and some swamp land, the result, 
probably, of the same fire which cleared 
so much of the shore opposite. 
And here it may be remarked that, 
however wasteful in a commercial sense 
may have been many of the forest fires 
in the wilder portions of our continent, 
they nevertheless have often been of 
corresponding benefit to the game and 
range stock. The replacement of dense 
and often stunted and useless conifers 
with poplar, birch, cherry, oak, beech, 
maple, and the subsequent appearance, 
also, of meadows and glades covered 
with grass, moss, bushes, and small herb- 
age, has done much in the way of sup- 
plying an abundant and nutritious vari- 
ety of winter and summer food, valuable 
alike to the larger game animals, domes- 
tic stock, pack horses, many game birds, 
and small quadrupeds, few of which re- 
sort to or can thrive throughout the year 
in the dense, dark evergreens of the 
North. 
In recent 3^ears hundreds of thousands 
of acres of such second growth have 
sprung up in Alaska, and nowhere has 
it been of greater advantage to game and 
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