My Sled- "Trip on the Muir Glacier 



trunks is still in place. Some of the stumps are on 

 rocky ridges of gravelly soil about one hundred and 

 twenty-five feet above the sea. The valley has been 

 washed out by the stream now occupying it, one of 

 the glacier's draining streams a mile long or more and 

 an eighth of a mile wide. 



I got supper early and was just going to bed, when 

 I was startled by seeing a man coming across the mo- 

 raine, Professor Reid, who had seen me from the main 

 camp and who came with Mr. Loomis and the cook 

 in their boat to ferry me over. I had not intended 

 making signals for them until to-morrow but was 

 glad to go. I had been seen also by Mr. Case and one 

 of his companions, who were on the western moun- 

 tain-side above the fossil forest, shooting ptarmigans. 

 I had a good rest and sleep and leisure to find out 

 how rich I was in new facts and pictures and how 

 tired and hungry I was. 



