TRAVEL IN THE MOUNTAINS 45 



It was indeed true. Over a space as large as a New 

 York City lot, there grew a scattering cover of bushes 

 a foot high, bearing red raspberries, fully ripe, and de- 

 licious. We flung ourselves upon them, and feasted. I 

 like to hunt in a country that contains something in the 

 form of fruit, nuts or berries that a hungry man can eat. 

 In the tropics it is seldom indeed that one finds in a for- 

 est any of these wilderness luxuries. The traveller who 

 cannot live by his gun or rod must carry his food with 

 him, or starve. Beside the poverty-stricken tropical for- 

 ests, the forests of the temperate zone are rich in things 

 edible to man. Now when Charlie and I went on that 

 side hunt and discovered Josephine Lake, we found a 

 whole mountain-side covered with delicious huckle- 

 berries, of three species, upon which we gratefully fed. 

 Had there been a grizzly bear " among those present," 

 he would have stood aghast at the havoc we wrought. 



