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Title: Trails and tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, William S., 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Birds
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d causegreat discomfort to one who undertakes topass through a thicket. The ascent was very steep from this pointuntil we reached the altitude of little sticks.One of the Nimrods was in advance a shortdistance, and so anxious was he to reach thesheep country that he went off the trail andhad to be recalled. But his aggressivenesswas short-lived, and long before midday hewas shouting at the top of his voice from therear end of the string of packs, Wait! Wait!You re going too d— fast! In a short timewe ran into a bees nest, and you should haveseen the party scatter to get out of raidingdistance of the nest, every man for himself,packs bouncing, hats waving, all shoutinguntil we reached a safe distance. As we ascended the mountain the mos-quitoes grew scarcer and scarcer. About theland of little sticks we stopped for a lightlunch. Looking in the direction indicatedby the guide we saw a large moose feedingin a little swale. Doc could not see him, tryas he would. The Indian endeavored to
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CO(O o -4-» a.3 uoJOu a,< o 150 Bior Game on Kenai Peninsula assist him by locating the animal with refer-ence to a good-sized rock, but his untrainedeye, even with the aid of field-glasses, couldnot make out the outline and we had to giveup in despair, although he was very keen tosee it. Blueberries were quite plentiful allaround us and after we ate our lunch we filledup with them as a dessert. We came to alittle pond of crystal water at the foot of asmall glacier, and as soon as we reached themargin some twenty-five or thirty ptarmigantook flight in all directions. They were stillin their moulting plumage. By this timethe largest man in the party was unable tokeep the pace, and lagging behind kept theentire party back. In starting up the canyonthe ambitious member turned up the rightside, but erelong came to a place that wasimpassable and began to shout, I cant goany farther along here. One of the othersanswered, Slide, slide! and the mightyNimrod took the suggestion and slid do

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