
ALL SNUG AT SPRAY LAKE. 
part of Alaska at that time. He said he 
had been assured of this fact by men who 
had seen them and whose word he could 
not doubt. I asked him how he accounted 
for the fact that though white men and In- 
dians had hunted in Alaska a hundred 
years, not a single head or skin of an ibex 
had ever been brought out? He shook his 
head, but said he still thought there must 
be living specimens of this animal up there. 
I saw on my travels several upturned 
roots that furnished excellent imitations of 
deer horns, elk horns, sheep horns or goat 
horns. We have all been fooled by such 
formations, and many of us have wasted 
cartridges on them. I photographed sev- 
eral of these imitation antlers, simply to 
show how easy it is for even an old hunter 
to be duped when he has his imagination 
with him. 
At our farthest point North we camped 
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on a high summit on which one branch of 
the Mackenzie river rises. There is 
a meadow of several hundred acres, which 
has in it a number of springs and these 
combining form one branch of what is 
known as the Sun Capta river. This flows 
into the Athabasca; the Athabasca into 
Great Slave lake, and the outlet of that 
into the Mackenzie. So, strictly speaking 
the little brook flawing out of the meadow 
on the margin on which we camped, and 
which is shown in the picture, eventually 
finds its way through the Mackenzie into 
the Arctic ocean. The altitude of this 
meadow is 9,000 feet, and some of the 
peaks in the immediate vicinity rise 4,000 
to 5,000 feet higher. One can step across 
the little brook, shown in the picture, but 
2 miles farther down it, a horse would 
have hard work to step across it in half an 
hour. The Sun Capta is fed by glaciers 
at frequent intervals. Consequently, it 
