250 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chap, xh 



we heard that the energetic Marshal was soon off on the 

 warpath again, after more marauders, in the shape of two 

 other parties of sportsmen who were hunting in the 

 Kachemak Bay country, near the mouth of Cook's Inlet. 



The most amusing part of the whole thing was that 

 natives, miners, and others had been killing moose and sheep 

 in season and out of season indiscriminately, right under the 

 noses of the custodians of the law for months past, and that 

 no notice was taken of the facts by them. It cannot for a 

 moment be supposed that persons who are always in constant 

 communication with, or in immediate proximity to, some 

 local store, can be in such urgent need of fresh meat as a 

 party of sportsmen who push as far as possible into a country 

 isolated from civilisation ; and yet the very man who was 

 most bitter against what he called the " game hogs of sports- 

 men," admitted to me that every week some of the men from 

 his mining camp went out and brought in plenty of mountain 

 sheep for food in camp. This camp was situated on a lake 

 where fresh salmon were abundant, and regular communica- 

 tion kept up with the local stores. This is a very different 

 position from that of a sportsman perched in a camp many 

 thousand feet high, and dependent on one or two natives to 

 pack his supplies from a store many miles distant. Truly, 

 " 'tis a mad world " in which men reason thus ! 



