, 1889-11-21

away lying under Il tree asleep. We
stood still for moment looking at
him, when one of the party without
moving an inch quietly laid his
field glass on u rock. The faint
click made by the operation was
sufficient, and, without waiting to
look around, the ram was up and
out of range before any Of us could
get a shot.
THE GOAT.
"a mountain goat, on the other
hand, is of a sluggish, stubborn dis
position; the greatest difficulty ell
countered i'm hunting him consists
i'm finding him. OF solitary ma
ture, the goat inhabits the widest,
the steepest and most inaccessible
canyons. He delights in travelling
along a narrow ledge of rock .jutting
out over an abyss thousands
of feet deep. My first goat
exhibited all of the above charac-
teristics. We had been following
signs for several days, and had
trnmped up and down a number of
CANYONS, when at last, towards
evening, Sherwood and l were
making our way back to camp,
when on the opposite side of the
canyon, fully $50 yards away, we
saw a goat browsing OH the Itch
ems which grew I'm the crevices of
the rock. He was on narrow
ledge, about half way up the side of
the canyon, and so steep was 1t that
he looked to us to be fairly stuck to
the rocks. Bracing ourselves in the
shale, which was rs steep AS the roof
of barn where we were, l took
shot. The goat gave himself little
shake and walked along. Thinking
/ had missed him, / shot again and
put four balls into him without his
making one unusual movement. He
lay down after the last shot, and In
a moment began to slide down the
rocks. Then he began to roll, and
rs he gained velocity he turned end
over end, until, coming to the edge
of the precipice, he shot out into the
air. For another moment all was
silent, then a dull thud and the noise
of a shower of rocks falling on the
rocks below told us the goat was
killed and lost, for we could not
even see to the bottom of the canyon.
"The next day we worked our
way to the bottom and found him,
with four shots In his carcass and
both horns broken. He was II
big fellow and measured seven feet
three inches from the tip of his nose
to his four inch tail. / found mount
ain goat shooting very tame as COM
pared with the big horn.
INDIAN SUPERSTITION.
"The Indians were very much ex-
ercised over the first goat brought
into camp. They have supersti-
ton to the effect that If when IL
goat is killed the hunter does not eat
and burn every vestige of the flesh,
bones, hide and all, he will be
caught in a snow storm, and will
never escape from the mountains.
too, that the weather got bad and
first two goats.
THE GRIZZLY.
at was the day after having
killed goat that we got our grizzly
bear. On leaving camp we found
her trail, for 1t proved to be an enor-
nous she bear, n silver-tippcd griz-
zly, weighing 1000 pounds, with two
cubs weighing ut least 400 pounds
each. Following 1t up, we came to
IL place where they had all slid down
the mountain on their launches,
leaving broad track in the snow.
A little farther on and we caught
sight of the old one i'm the open tim
Der, and 1 took shot at her. She
turned, evidently having been shot,
and with II snort seemed about to
show fight, but she thought better
of it and went on growing, and
was soon lost to sight In some thick
brush. Not caring to go into the
thicket after her, we went back to
camp, and returning the next morn
ing found her dead. Both cubs had
deserted her.
USEFUL HINTS.
"The following few facts may be
useful to any one contemplating
such q trip. Hire your horses and
take the Indian owner along with
you as packer and your horses will
never have sore backs, and will
rarely be lost. Winchester 45-7O
were our weapons, and they proved