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two or three miles lay between fine hay ranches. Fortunately, 

 we had made the acquaintance of a teamster at the cabin near 

 the Pass, and when we entered the Park he met us and told us 

 where to find good fishing grounds. Some four or five miles 

 within the Park we came again to hilly country and soon turned 

 from the main road into a lane, and after a mile or two of inde- 

 scribable roads interspered with bridges that no eastern horse 

 would step upon, we came to the banks of the Fraser River. 

 Here we camped in the midst of such excellent pasture land 

 and amidst scenery of such surpassing beauty, that we forgave 

 the roads, bridges and everything else that had been unpleasant. 

 Along the road we saw Parnassius smhit/iens, Satynis charon, 

 dcnonympha and several Picris. We were in camp early and 

 prepared reels and rods for a try at the trout, but they were 

 too shy to make our acquaintance. A friendly rancher, how- 

 ever, supplied us with enough for supper and gave us hints 

 sufficient to enable us to catch some of the speckled beauties 

 the next day. All through Middle Park and to the northwest 

 the fishing is good at all times and the catching excellent 

 when the contrary trout will bite. We never had many in 

 camp at one time but often all we could eat. The one bait 

 which they could seldom resist was a live grasshopper, and we 

 soon fell into the habit of collecting hoppers while hunting, 

 and confining them in brass shotgun cartridges by placing a 

 wad over them until needed. Few insects were to be found 

 near our camp here. Arg. eurynome, P. sminthcus, Pam. syl- 

 vanoidcs and dcnonvmpha were fairly common and a roving 

 Plnsia could be taken now and then. Even at this date it was 

 becoming so dry that insects were scarce. 



July 2ist, we left Fraser River and took the stage road to 

 Coulter. Just before reaching this post-office we saw the first 

 covey of grouse. It was near this place that the only sage hen 

 observed during the trip was seen skulking into the sage brush. 

 Satyriis charon and Lycccna hctcronca were abundant. Will, 

 caught a beautiful abberration of P. sminthcus, and we saw a 

 few Argynnis. The high altitude had been too much for the 

 youngest of the party, so we omitted an intended side trip to 

 Grand L,ake, and hurried on to Sulphur Springs and the only 

 doctor for miles around. Merel) T stopping in town long enough 



