INTER-OCEAN HUNTING TALES 



weather. This does not seem like roughing 

 it. The frontiersman of former days would 

 have thought such comfort with a hunting 

 outfit impossible. Modern progress, how- 

 ever, has caused most of the inconveniences 

 of camp life to disappear as if by magic. 

 Would that its magic influence could restock 

 the wilderness with the great herds of wild 

 animals that have vanished. 



The following day I went out with the 

 guide to try my luck. We had not traveled 

 more than two miles before discovering a 

 small herd of elk. We circled around them 

 sufficiently to size them up, but could find no 

 heads worth picking out. Our course was 

 then changed, and we hunted toward a high 

 mountain north of Mt. Leidy. From this 

 point we obtained a fine view of the sur- 

 rounding country, which I carefully swept 

 with my Seitz glasses in quest of game. Far 

 off on a distant ridge we finally saw some 

 elk slowly moving out of the timber into the 

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