SUMMER DAYS AT MOUNT SHASTA 



larvae, honey, stings, nest, and all, are devoured 

 in one ravishing revel. 



The antelope may still be found in consider 

 able numbers to the northeastward of Shasta, 

 but the elk, once abundant, have almost en 

 tirely gone from the region. The smaller ani 

 mals, such as the wolf, the various foxes, wild 

 cats, coon, squirrels, and the curious wood rat 

 that builds large brush huts, abound in all the 

 wilder places; and the beaver, otter, mink, etc., 

 may still be found along the sources of the 

 rivers. The blue grouse and mountain quail 

 are plentiful in the woods and the sage-hen on 

 the plains about the northern base of the moun 

 tain, while innumerable smaller birds enliven 

 and sweeten every thicket and grove. 



There are at least five classes of human in 

 habitants about the Shasta region: the Indi 

 ans, now scattered, few in numbers and miser 

 ably demoralized, though still offering some 

 rare specimens of savage manhood; miners and 

 prospectors, found mostly to the north and 

 west of the mountain, since the region about 

 its base is overflowed with lava; cattle-raisers, 

 mostly on the open plains to the northeastward 

 and around the Klamath Lakes; hunters and 

 trappers, where the woods and waters are 

 wildest; and farmers, in Shasta Valley on the 



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