In the Sierra 



time, springing to my feet, I said, " This 

 time it is real all must die, and where 

 could mountaineer find a more glorious 

 death ! " 



Left camp soon after sunrise for an all- 

 day ramble eastward. Crossed the head of 

 Indian Basin, forested with Abies magnified, 

 underbrush mostly Ceanotbus cordulatus and 

 manzanita, a mixture not easily trampled 

 over or penetrated, for the ceanothus is 

 thorny and grows in dense snow-pressed 

 masses, and the manzanita has exceedingly 

 crooked, stubborn branches. From the head 

 of the canon continued on past North 

 Dome into the basin of Dome or Porcu- 

 pine Creek. Here are many fine meadows 

 imbedded in the woods, gay with Lilium 

 parvum and its companions ; the elevation, 

 about eight thousand feet, seems to be best 

 suited for it saw specimens that were a 

 foot or two higher than my head. Had 

 more magnificent views of the upper moun- 

 tains, and of the great South Dome, said to 



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