TWO Y()UX(; F].;.\THF,RLESS CdR.MOKAX'I'S IN is'EST, ALIOU'I' 8 HAYS ULU : 



\- ('.cDTgL- Sliiras, 3rd 

 THE SMOOTH 



AX)) SIIIXV BACKS AXD THE HEUXT HEADS iTAKI-; TIUDI RESEJtBEE TURTLES 



forecast b\- tlie barometer. For the then 

 and future identification, we called this 

 D(iuble-ba}' camp. 



The erection of the tents, the manu- 

 facture I if cami) furniture, and the set- 

 ting" up of the light sheet-iron Klondike 

 stove took the remainder <if the dav. 



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 .lice (/igi-is, and the se\-eral large 

 runwavs on either side of the tents 

 showed that we were then trespassing 

 upon fine of the main thoroughfares 

 around the lake, liut no fresh signs of 

 any kind were found. 



At dusk the g-uides saw, from a near-b)' 

 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 upi:>n which the present 

 camp was located. 



Selecting a good game country does 

 not of itself imply individual success, 

 thoueli r)f course the main element in 



such. All wild animals of the larger kind 

 ha\'e 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 

 sujiply. Therefore, before starting for 

 Alaska, it was deemed no more impor- 

 tant to go t(.i a good game region than it 

 was to go to the best I'jart of it, for the 

 allotted time was too limited fm- deter- 

 mining the latter bN- personal investiga- 

 tion. It is the too frequent lack of this 

 kind of foresight which so often brings 

 bitter disappointment to hundr'.ls, wdio 

 feel assured of success simph- because of 

 their entry into a country reputed to be 

 s\\arming with game. 



Tf ni}' adx'ance information were cor- 

 rect — and it came from sc\'eral sources — 

 it meant that I would find, to a ccrtaintv, 

 more or less nio(.ise in an area of less 

 than a square mile, and at a period of 

 the year wdien they were hardest to lo- 

 cate, while the wdiite sheep were to be 



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