around me like flies around honey, while I expounded maps and field 

 notebooks. Of course, none of them recognized me and they were 

 amused, when I told them who I was. Wednesday morning was spent 

 in going about the geysers and it was great fun to hear the expressions 

 of wonder and admiration in so many languages." The party had won- 

 derful good fortune in seeing the Castle and the Giant erupt, for the 

 latter of which we had been waiting for days. It was, indeed, a mag- 

 nificent sight and one which well repaid all the patience it had cost. 



A small detachment of cavalrymen, under the command of a cor- 

 poral, formed the police in charge of the Upper Geyser Basin and did 

 their work very efficiently. One of the most distinguished of the visiting 

 German geologists, I think it was Rothpletz, unwittingly violated one 

 of the Park regulations by breaking off a piece of geyserite from the 

 cone of Old Faithful. The Corporal witnessed the crime and promptly 

 put the offender under arrest, who submitted without a word of pro- 

 test. It was fortunate that I was present, for I was able to persuade 

 the Corporal, who was a very decent young fellow and knew me well, 

 to liberate his prisoner. I assured him that I would take all the respon- 

 sibility and make things right for him with Lieutenant Pitcher, who 

 entirely approved of my action and there the matter ended. Diener, of 

 Vienna, whose hsp and high, singsong voice seemed incompatible with 

 his great scientific reputation, was an especially interesting figure. I 

 still seem to hear him say, as the geologists' party was about to leave 

 the Upper Basin: "Wir werden noch eine Thanthe haben Old Faithful 

 wieder thu thehen." 



After an evening in the hotel in the Lower Basin, where we again 

 met our foreign colleagues, we camped at the same spot as before and 

 early the next morning bade our friends of the ist farewell and started 

 for the Falls and Canon. The road was unimproved and very hard on 

 the horses, which, like ourselves, suffered from the mixture of rain and 

 snow that fell all day long. The following evening, the Geological Con- 

 gress began their homeward way and we saw nothing more of them. 

 One of the Survey men, who had the excursion in charge, told me that 

 the foreigners were greatly puzzled by what he called "the portable 

 civilization" of the Park, the combination of comfort and crudity, elec- 

 tric lights and grizzly bears, etc., and he had ceased trying to explain it. 



At the Mammoth Hot Springs the expedition began to disintegrate. 

 Magie and I went to Livingston by train and thence went home by 

 the Northern Pacific. The students rode their horses to Livingston and 



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