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useless to attempt to run him down, when once alarmed and 
in motion. He must therefore either be stalked silently from 
the leeward, or shot down at once. 
The following description of a hunting party’s encamp- 
ment is so spirit-stirring, that we cannot pass it by : “ The 
first thing to be done on a tramp after Cariboo, is to encamp 
for the first night, since it is rare that a single day’s march 
carries the sportsman to the scene of action. The arms are 
stacked, or hung from the branches of the giant pines around 
the camp; the goods are piled; the snow is scraped away 
from a large area, and heaped into banks to windward ; a 
tree or two is felled and a huge fire kindled ; beds are pre- 
pared of the soft and fragrant tips of ’cedar and hemlock 
branches; and the party gathers about the cheerful blaze, 
while the.collops are hissing in the frying-pan, the coffee is 
simmering in the camp-kettle, and the fish or game — if the 
