. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . ot usingthe tents as the weather is fine. ***** Then we leave the North Fork and climb up onto the divide. We soon get past the timber line,but there is grass right up to the top ; the altitudeis only some seven thousand feet. There are somerugged peaks, surrounded by rocky bluffs and steepprecipices, an ideal country for Rocky Mountainsheep and goats, and sure enough the eagle eyeof Schwartz already discerns something in thedistance. The field-glasses reveal the fact that itis a large flock of magnificent sheep, for themountain sheep is
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . ot usingthe tents as the weather is fine. ***** Then we leave the North Fork and climb up onto the divide. We soon get past the timber line,but there is grass right up to the top ; the altitudeis only some seven thousand feet. There are somerugged peaks, surrounded by rocky bluffs and steepprecipices, an ideal country for Rocky Mountainsheep and goats, and sure enough the eagle eyeof Schwartz already discerns something in thedistance. The field-glasses reveal the fact that itis a large flock of magnificent sheep, for themountain sheep is a very different creature fromthe familiar domesticated animal. There must beover a hundred in the flock, but there is no chanceto get near them ; they are much too wide awake,and in any case we have not come to hunt, so weleave them unmolested and continue our way. This is a great hunting country ; parties comehere from all over North America, and fromEngland too, for the sake of these sheep and is one of the most expert of the hunting. IN A GULLY, V~lfc - *t \. CROSSING A GLACIER. X
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