. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. salmon- tion tlitit ; fellows, it a six- : same as ^â¢ere lying Ta of air, . losquitoes 'u-stream. long t'oi' a he velvet) How leis- iiconscious ! h.^ad of a a shot at), â ud. They tl>e break- A defect- litle must ght. May as cool a> to exam so I tried [k, but too The Elk ^xe on my .\nother ling in tln' Id him, h'' le. As his las an alii inned hi
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and characteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. salmon- tion tlitit ; fellows, it a six- : same as ^â¢ere lying Ta of air, . losquitoes 'u-stream. long t'oi' a he velvet) How leis- iiconscious ! h.^ad of a a shot at), â ud. They tl>e break- A defect- litle must ght. May as cool a> to exam so I tried [k, but too The Elk ^xe on my .\nother ling in tln' Id him, h'' le. As his las an alii inned him. with thf KLKIIUNTIXG IN THE OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS. 05 % "By this time thi^ sun was nearly down, and I started for camp. I had just crossed back to the other side of the river again, and had sat down to rest near an Elk-trail, in an alder-thicket, when I thought I heard a light foot-fn 11. I could see about twenty feet back on the trail, and there sat a liungry-looking Timber Wolf. lie had struck my trail, smelt tbe fresh meat, and follow<.-d me. I quietly unslung my pack, leveled my rifle, and shot liim in the neck. As I took his scalp I gave a good old Comanche yell; for if there is anything I like to scaliD, it is a Timber Wolf and a Cougar. The next day I killed six Timber Wolves around the remains of that Elk. I have often killed two or three Ell<. in one dav, and could have killed more, yet I never was on an Elk-hunt thill I enjoyed as I die. diat one. " At four o'clock in the afternoon of the tenth day, 1 was back to the mining- canip, and found that my partner had killed two Bears and caught ten Beavers while I was gone.'' And now to relate another piece of my own experience in W^apiti-hunting. In the fall of 18871 went, with a party of friends, on a hunting expedition to a large lake that nestles among the pine-clad foot-hills beneath the shadows of snow-capped peaks of the Olympic Mountains, Washing- ton. The Makah Indians, whose village, Osette, stan
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