the average rate of travel is about 

 twenty miles in eight hours. And the 

 day when I first took the ribbons in my 

 hands to guide four horses we were 

 from nine in the morning till five at 

 night going twelve miles. This was 

 the way of it : 



Nimrod and I were on a hunting trip 

 in the Canadian Rockies, and as the 

 government map said there was a road, 

 though not a good one, we decided to 

 carry our belongings in a four-horse 

 wagon, in which we could also ride if 

 we liked, and to have saddle horses be- 

 sides. 



Green, a man of the region, was the 

 driver and cook, and we had as guest a 

 famous bear hunter from the Sierra 

 Nevadas. On the first two days out 

 from the little mountain town where 

 we started, we saw many tracks of 



