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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