. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. I'huto by Gcurgt; Sliiras, 3rd EXTRAXC1-: T(i THi; SHFJ'.P COUXTKV : I.( iW DIN'IDE 3,000 FEET ABOVE SKILAK EAKE, WIIlCRE THE AUTHOR CAiMl'EH ALoXE THE FIRST NKHIT (SEE RAGE 473) ill the animals and birds wliich, in the shadows nf the declining;- snn, came out of thiclage 457). A loose signs were j^lentiful, but no mor)se were seen. 'Jdie air about resoiuided with clear notes of the hoarx' marmot, the mountain wood- t'liuck of the North (see i)ages 434, 435). â 'riien caiue the mosc|uit()es, the ])Osl- cro]) of the high
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. I'huto by Gcurgt; Sliiras, 3rd EXTRAXC1-: T(i THi; SHFJ'.P COUXTKV : I.( iW DIN'IDE 3,000 FEET ABOVE SKILAK EAKE, WIIlCRE THE AUTHOR CAiMl'EH ALoXE THE FIRST NKHIT (SEE RAGE 473) ill the animals and birds wliich, in the shadows nf the declining;- snn, came out of thiclage 457). A loose signs were j^lentiful, but no mor)se were seen. 'Jdie air about resoiuided with clear notes of the hoarx' marmot, the mountain wood- t'liuck of the North (see i)ages 434, 435). â 'riien caiue the mosc|uit()es, the ])Osl- cro]) of the higher altitudes, when the insect-proof tent became a jilace of refuge for the niglit. ( )n the following morning I had hardly finished l)reakfast wdien along came the men, red-faced and tired in the fight against gravit)' and the worst of moun- tain trails. An hour later we were climbing over the broken rocks littering the floor of the divide, and thence enter- ing a great ])lateau sloping southerly to Creek. For the rest of the day we struggled through bushes, stum- bling into grass-coA'ered cracks, leaping from tussock to tussock, and circling about swam])s and mu<l-holes. In the midst of all this turmoil Tom ]jointe(l out round dots of white on a dis- tant ridge which looked like weathered boulders or snowballs from the frozen fields aboA-e. These were the white mountain sheep of which ve were in search. AMien I asked Tom, siimewhat hope- full)', xvhether it would not be wise to begin the camera hunt at once, since it made no difference whether we fright- ened these sheep or not, be polileh" con- cealed a negati\"e answer ])\- sa\ing that if I would circle two miles to the left, ascend the mountain top from the rear, he would drive the sheep toward me be- fore dark. This didn't seeiu like getting to llenjamin Creek on schedule time; but as Tom assured me, in a svmpatbetic tone, that I would see four or five sheep 474. Please note that these images are ex
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