Memories of a Bear Hunter 



supper, and after dark, replenishing the camp-fire, 

 travel about two hours through the timber and 

 make a dry camp. 



While Bean was attending to camp duties, I 

 went back far enough to command a view of five 

 hundred yards to the rear, across the Madison, and 

 with a field glass kept a good lookout for hostile 

 signs, but detected none. In accordance with the 

 plan, we traveled about two hours through thick 

 pine timber and made camp in a little meadow 

 sufficient for horse feed. 



During this night's tramp we occasionally 

 jumped small bands of antelope feeding on little 

 patches of open ground. This was the only in- 

 stance in my twenty-five years' experience among 

 these animals when I found them using in timber. 

 Afterward I saw a buck antelope near the Lower 

 Geyser Basin. 30 With an early start, we break- 

 fasted near the Madison. We nooned in the 

 upper canon, having a feast of trout and whitefish, 

 the first square meal we had had since the start 

 from Bozeman, except bacon and grizzly. Pass- 

 ing out of the canon, we camped near the point 

 where the Nez Perces had set afoot the scouting 

 party before related. We were now out of reach 

 of Indian scares, and in the prairie country on the 

 Upper Madison. 



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