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discover that the game has taken alarm and started on 
the jump, and so give it up in despair. 
One man perhaps in a thousand can still-hunt, or 
stalk, Cariboo in the summer season. He, when he has 
discovered a herd feeding up wind, at a leisure pace 
and clearly unalarmed, stations a comrad in close am- 
bush, well down wind and to leeward of their upward 
track, and then himself, after closely observing their 
mood, motions and line of course, strikes off in a wide 
circle well to leeward, until he has got a mile or two 
ahead of the herd, when very slowly and guardedly, ob- 
serving the profoundest silence, he cuts across their 
direction, and gives them his wind, as it is technically 
termed, dead ahead. This is the crisis of the affair; if 
he give the wind too strongly, or too rashly, if he make 
the slightest noise or motion, they scatter in an instant, 
and away. Ifhe give it slightly, gradually, and casu- 
ally as it were, not fancying themselves pursued, but 
merely approached, they merely turn away from the re- 
mote danger, and instead of flying, feed. away from it, 
working their way down wind to the deadly ambush, of 
which their keenest scent cannot, under such circum- 
stances, inform them. If he succeed in this inch by 
inch he crawls after them, never pressing them, or draw- 
ing in upon them, but preserving the same distance still, 
still giving them the same wind as at the first, so that he- 
creates no panic or confusion, until at length, when close 
upon the hidden peril, his sudden whoop sends them 
