REED AND JOHN COLBERT 
A ‘ DIAMOND- 
HITCH’ 
To-day has been a 
The morning started witn 
by intermittent snow-flurries and showers. 
orm, followed 
horses’ backs 
were too wet to permit packing, so we decided to await more 
settled weather for crossing t±fenext mountain range. In- 
stead of lying around camp, however, resolved to try the peaks 
behind us for sheep. After what was to me a rather heart¬ 
breaking climb, in a blinding snowstorm, we reached the 
summit, and for over an hour were forced to shelter behind 
a rock. Here we ate our pilot-biscuit and cheese, hoping, the 
while, that the weather would clear, in order that we might 
use our binoculars in searching the hills. 
Finally this happened, and very soon we sighted two goats, 
some distance below us. Stalked, to get within shooting 
range. I shot, hitting one hard back of the shoulder, so that 
it could not run. Made rather a bad shot at the other, hit¬ 
ting too far back. 
The first goat showing more signs of life than I liked, I 
then ran in pursuit of it, asking Little to finish off the second, 
which he did, knocking it over in one shot. The goat rolled 
about two hundred yards down hill, apparently stone dead. 
[ 1 8 i ] 
Sept. 4 th 
