. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. the; mount.\rN sr,ori-:s of tut, shfet I' Of cuuxtrv IRC Shims, 3rd "Big Pond camp" in the foreground, situated midway between the cal)in on Benjamin Creek on the west and the great ice cap on the east. The author camped ahmc here several nights while photographing the white sheep. Two Alaska liear visited the tent one night (see page 477). near his cabin to one liere, the march continued, and at . in the evening the cabin came suddenly in sig-Jit, 200 feet below a terrace bordering the valley of the c
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. the; mount.\rN sr,ori-:s of tut, shfet I' Of cuuxtrv IRC Shims, 3rd "Big Pond camp" in the foreground, situated midway between the cal)in on Benjamin Creek on the west and the great ice cap on the east. The author camped ahmc here several nights while photographing the white sheep. Two Alaska liear visited the tent one night (see page 477). near his cabin to one liere, the march continued, and at . in the evening the cabin came suddenly in sig-Jit, 200 feet below a terrace bordering the valley of the creek. John and I were quite used up, the former still suffering from the after-results of typhoid fever, cimtracted on our trip the previous )'ear to Afexico, and I on general principles. But soon the restorative effect of a hearty meal and the ins])iration of the surroundings gave me sufficient energy to climb a hill behind the caljin, and there, at 8 p. m., I could sec, at the head- waters of iienjamin Creek, three differ- ent bands of sheep, all preparing to spend the night on little open benches not much abo"\'e the meadows. Such a sight told the storv of a country seldom visited by man and where these aboriginal pastoral flocks felt secure by night and day. ];[(", POND c.\Mr .Vt 8 o'clock the next morning we were ready to start after sheep, leaving John in charge of the C(imnnssarv deparUncnt. Following the creek east half a mile, we then went up vrer a series of sloping meadows for a distance of three miles. A little above the cabin three small streams come together and, in combina- tion, form Benjamin Creek. ( )ne flows in a zigzag course from the snow fields just this side of the low (li\-i(le above Skilak Lake, where the melting snow is likewise the source of Cottonwood Creek; another carries the o\'erll(")w wa- ters of a big pond, in the highest mcadow to the east, and the third drains several large vallevs in the southeast. The two latter streams, lyin
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