cook discovered a spring 

 of boiling water which he 

 appropriated for his uses. 

 A little farther on, a spring 

 of ice-cold water was 

 located, so at the camp we 

 had all modern improve- 

 ments as far at least as 

 water supply was con- 

 cerned. 



After making camp, an 

 hour's walk }>rought us to 

 the top of a rocky hill 

 from which we had an ex- 

 cellent view of nearly the 

 entire length of the lake, 

 an irregular sheet of water 



eight' or ten miles long by perhaps two miles at the widest point. It lay 

 before us a shimmering blue-green mirror with occasional strips of snow- 

 white beach. At the south end, that part nearest us, the water was much 

 darker in color owing to its greater depth, and the steep slopes of the 

 escarpment were mirrored in its surface. Here and there along the shores, 

 jets and clouds of steam spurted forth from the numerous boiling springs 

 and immature geysers. Far away toward the center of the lake what seemed 

 great peninsulas and islands of rosy pink broke the placid surface of the 

 lake — these were the flamingos that we had come to see. 



When the birds liad gone i'rom tlie lisliiiit! ^rouiuls we would Jiuriiedly cou.struct a crude 

 blind of green branches and await their return. Within a half hour they would come, some 

 of them on wing and some swimming slowly in 



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