HUNTING GOATS WITH A CAMERA. 



H. CARRY. 



Under the impression that photographs 

 of the wild goat in his mountain fastnesses 

 might be worthy of reproduction in 

 Recreation, I enclose 2 which were taken 

 about a year ago in the Lillooet District 





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AMATEUR PHOTO BY H. CARRY. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOATS ON THEIR NATIVE RANGE. 



of B. C. I was examining a group of min- 

 eral locations, and had occasion to climb 

 a mountain which towered immediately 

 above camp some 4,500 feet. When with- 

 in about 500 feet of the top the Siwash 

 with me drew my attention to a goat. We 

 soon discovered 3 others, and then I deter- 

 mined to stalk them in order to get a shot 

 at them with the 

 kodak — the only 

 shooting iron I had 

 with me. We kept 

 the wind of them 

 and hurried for- 

 ward, but on peer- 

 ing over a rock to 

 locate them I found 

 they had seen us 

 and were trying to 

 stalk us so as to get 

 our scent. This they 

 failed to do, as we 

 reached the brow of 

 a precipice — our 

 objective point — si- 

 m u 1 1 a n e o u sly; 

 whereupon, seeing 

 they were fore- 

 stalled, 3 of them 

 came strolling de- 

 liberately down to- 

 ward us ona voyage of discovery. One wary 

 old chap went off in a huff in the opposite 

 direction, with his mane and back hair 



erect like that of a dog looking for 

 trouble. One snap was taken at a distance 

 of 25 to 30 yards, when they were standing 

 looking at us; the other at precisely the fa- 

 vorite old duelling distance — 12 paces. This 



latter gives a side 

 elevation of No. 2, 

 who is about to 

 follow No. 1 in his 

 apparent desperate- 

 attempt to commit 

 suicide; for he 

 calmly went over 

 what under ordi- 

 nary circumstances 

 I should have 

 called a perpen- 

 dicular cliff. No. 3 

 is in plain view. 

 and No. 4 — the sus- 

 picious old chap — 

 can be distinctly 

 made out with the 

 help of a glass (not 

 of toddy). Who 

 can find him? 



The foreground 

 of the photo is 

 blurred, as I had to set the kodak on the 

 rocks, which were steeply ascending, in 

 order to leave a hand free for holding my 

 hat to shade the object glass and the other 

 •to work the bulb. 



My Siwash kept up a running commen- 

 tary on the extraordinary inquisitive 



PHOTO BY THE AUTHOR 



THEY CAME STROLLING DOWN TOWARD US ON A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY. 



ness of the, brutes, saying he had never 

 before been able to approach so near 

 a goat. 



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