CHAP. IX 



GRIT RIDGE 



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the reindeer's skin twenty yards away down a snow-slope into 

 the brook, and, with incomparable impudence, left it exactly 

 where they found and carried off the joints. The snow was 

 covered with their footprints, and with reindeer hair along 

 the track made by the skin. Our food supplies being thus 



MOUNT MARMIER AND THE COLORADO PLATEAU SEEN ACROSS THE 

 SASSENDAL FROM MOUNT LUSITANIA. 



reduced, the first business of the day was to go up the 

 valley and fetch the reindeer shot by Pedersen, and, as we 

 supposed, concealed. Coming in sight of the place, we saw 

 afar off a cloudy white patch upon the ground with a 

 glaucous gull in the midst. The patch was reindeer hair, 

 strewn about. Only the skeleton and skin of the carcass 



