. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . is lefthind leg. Joe fired twice in quick succession, and whenthe animal paused once more, I once more let drive, andagain Joe pulled trigger. At my shot the beast seemedto collapse, so to speak, yet again he pulled himself to-gether and, half running, half sliding, down a steep slope,disappeared in a thicket of scrubby birch and poplarbushes. I was confident that, wounded as he was, he couldnot climb the slope, but thought it possible that he mightmake off down the
. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . is lefthind leg. Joe fired twice in quick succession, and whenthe animal paused once more, I once more let drive, andagain Joe pulled trigger. At my shot the beast seemedto collapse, so to speak, yet again he pulled himself to-gether and, half running, half sliding, down a steep slope,disappeared in a thicket of scrubby birch and poplarbushes. I was confident that, wounded as he was, he couldnot climb the slope, but thought it possible that he mightmake off down the basin, so I left Joe on the cliff to keepwatch, while I hastily took off my heavy boots andscrambled down the cliff into the basin below the I cautiously crept up to the thicket and into it,being careful to make sure that I knew what was withina radius of twenty or thirty feet, for I thought it barelypossible that, wounded as he was, the beast might pluckup enough courage to charge. To tell the truth, I ratherhoped he would, for I knew that with the heavy auto-matic I could easily stop him, whereas I was not sure. Reproduced from a photograph by M. B. Huston. HUSTOX PARTY OX WAY UP MOlXTArNS.
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