BROWN'S AVALANCHE. 67 



Well, I was looking for insects around in that vicinity, 

 but could not find many. After fooling around try- 

 ing to kill some grouse with rocks, I got one by 

 hitting it on the head. I climbed up on that crag. 

 There was a big rocky mass which was split off from 

 the rest, and I got a pole and tried to pry it off. I 

 worked for nearly two hours, for I wanted to see it 

 go down the mountain. At last it got loose, and how 

 it did go! I wish you could have seen it. The 

 big rock started a hundred others and this hundred a 

 thousand more. You would have thought the whole 

 top of the mountain had fallen. It frightened me as 

 I thought there might possibly have been someone at 

 the bottom of the canon. A cloud of dust and smoke 

 arose which had the smell of the infernal regions, 

 while the noise was terrific." 



When he finished his story Dyche, who had been 

 listening quietly, said he had had an adventure also. 



" When I left camp I went north and then circled 

 east and worked along the edge of the canon. Seeing 

 about a dozen big mule bucks in a band, I started to 

 stalk them. Working very slowly and crawling 

 carefully, I got within two hundred yards of them. 

 There was a bunch of scrubby spruce trees about sev- 

 enty-five yards to the east of them on the edge of the 

 canon, and I determined to get to that clump, where I 

 could have my pick of the band. Leaving my hat 

 and shoes behind, I worked my way along and got 

 almost there. Twenty-five yards more and the trees 

 would be reached. I stopped to get my breath a little, 

 when a regular earthquake seemed to break loose. 

 An immense crag away up on the side of the moun- 



