This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...goat, having a flowing beard, a full neck, and slightly curving dark-colored horns. The goat nearly equals the sheep in size. Its long white wool is silky and beautiful, and would certainly make fine and substantial cloth. While ascending Mount Selwyn, in the Peace River Pass, we collected a large quantity of this wool ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...goat, having a flowing beard, a full neck, and slightly curving dark-colored horns. The goat nearly equals the sheep in size. Its long white wool is silky and beautiful, and would certainly make fine and substantial cloth. While ascending Mount Selwyn, in the Peace River Pass, we collected a large quantity of this wool from the bushes as we passed upwards along their path. By throwing large stones over the precipices we caused them to run out from their hiding places, and their agility as they jumped from crag to crag was very remarkab-3. In Bow River Pass they are very common, and with a glass may be seen almost any day eating on the mountain tops. While encamped in the Pass in the Autumn of 1879, almost immediately under Grotto Mountain, a number of Stonies joined us. Shortly after one of their number pointed out three goats descending from the summit and eating as they came. A hurried consultation was held, and a few of the younger men started off to try and obtain the animals. In the course of an hour one of the hunters was observed crawling stealthily along a ledge almost on a level with the goats, which by this time had descended the mountain for a considerable distance. As we sat and watched him a puff of smoke, followed by the fall of one of the goats, told that he had got within range. In an instant the wounded animal was on its feet, and on three legs followed the others up the mountain. A number of shots fired in quick succession brought down another, and the wounded one fell dead at the eighth shot. The Indian like many of his tribe was armed with a Winchester rifle, and therefore fired very rapidly. Laying aside his gun the Indian crawled carefully along a narrow ledge, and seizing one of the goats he threw it over the precipice, and we saw it ...
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