170 WATCHED BY WILD ANIMALS’ 
dently saw a number of deer. He had crawled 
forward, then back-tracked and turned to the 
right, then made round to the left. The snow 
was somewhat packed and his big feet held him 
on the surface. The deer broke through. 
The lion climbed upon a fallen tree and crept 
forward. He was screened by its large up- 
turned root. At last he rushed out and seized 
a near-by deer and killed it, evidently after a 
short struggle. He had then pursued and killed 
a young deer that had fled off to the left where 
it was struggling in the heavy snows. Without 
returning to the first kill the lion fed off the 
second and returned to the den. 
I followed the other deer. In a swamp they 
had fed for a time on the tops of tall weeds 
among the snow and willows. I came close to 
them in a thick growth of spruce. Here the 
snow was less deep. A goodly portion of the 
snow still clung to the trees. 
These deer circled out of the spruce swamp 
and came into their trail made in entering it. 
Back along this trail they followed to where the 
lion had made the first kill. Leaping over this 
dead deer they climbed up on the rocky ridge off 
which so much snow had blown that they could 
travel speedily most of the time over the rocks 
with only now and then a stretch of deep snow. 
Often during my winter trips I came upon 
