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Title: Big game shooting in Alaska
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Radclyffe, C. R. E. (Charles Robert Eustace)
Subjects: Hunting -- Alaska Game and game-birds -- Alaska
Publisher: London : R. Ward
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ber of trophies of the chase, and manycurious and ingenious appliances made by Berg himself foruse in his various occupations. Here we held a council of war, and it was decided todivide our parties. Little and Glyn with two natives goingacross the lake in a westerly direction. They intended topack some miles into the mountains, and hunt the ground onwhich Little and Colonel Cane had killed their sheep in theprevious season. Taking the other two natives, whose names were Pitkaand Simeon, I started on the following morning in theopposite direction, making for the head of a stream calledIndian Creek, where both Little and my natives had huntedin former seasons, and where the sheep were said to inhabitfairly easy ground. It was this last consideration whichdecided me to go there, as I am a very poor hand at scalingdangerous places, and am utterly unable to negotiate atypical bit of ibex or chamois country owing to that deadlyfeeling of giddiness which no amount of practice seems tolessen.
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M^H 178 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chap. As we had ample time before us, and the men wereheavily loaded, we advanced by easy stages and camped thefirst evening near a small lake called Emma Lake, which is,I believe, named after Mrs. Dal de Weese, who accompaniedher husband on his shooting trip in that country in 1901.Whilst on the trail I bagged half-a-dozen spruce-grouse anda porcupine with the little rifle, and so we had a good stewfor supper. Next morning we followed a trail which led outof the timber line, and after two hours slow crawling up hill,reached the summit of the first mountain range. From thispoint we could see Indian Creek below us, with a big glacierat its head. On each side of the creek rose steep hills, andon the mountain sides opposite to us we soon saw the firstmountain sheep. The whole side of one hill was alive withsmall bands of them, easily visible to the naked eye for agreat distance, as their almost snow-white coats showed upvery distinctly against the gree

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