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on again, and then cutting off a good load of 

 meat, to which I added the tongue, liver and 

 kidneys, presently rejoined my companions. 



It was late that evening before we got our 

 camp pitched and a good fire alight ; but 

 before nightfall the rain stopped altogether, 

 and after we had made a good supper we dried 

 our wet clothes before the fire and got under 

 our blankets quite ready for a long night's 

 rest. 



On the following morning I sent Coghlan 

 and Thomas to bring in the meat of the 

 caribou doe, and went out by myself to look 

 for a stag worth shooting for his head. 



Our camp was situated at the bottom of a 

 ravine down which ran a fine clear mountain 

 stream. We were close to the limit of the 

 growth of spruce and birch trees, which were 

 succeeded along the banks of the creek by a 

 few patches of wiUow scrub, some four or five 

 feet in height. 



The sides of the ravine rose steeply on either 

 side to the edge of what I may term upland 

 plateaux, on which there were neither trees nor 



