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to call his attention in that direction, while I mounted 

 the rock on the north side, and endeavored to put 

 the rope over his horns with the pole. He wheeled 

 and came toward me, when I jumped from the rock, 

 and he turned again to the dogs. About eight feet 

 from the rock stood a hemlock tree, about two feet in 

 diameter, with branches six or eight feet above the 

 ground. It occurred to me that if I could climb this 

 it would be an easy matter to slip the noose over the 

 horns of the elk. I made the attempt, but did not 

 succeed as my moccasins were frozen. I pulled 

 them off and tried again, but with no better success. 

 I then took off my coat, which was by no means 

 pleasant, as the weather was intensely cold, but it 

 enabled me to climb the tree. Campbell then passed 

 the pole and- rope up to me, and called off* the dogs. 

 1 shouted, and the elk turned and advanced toward 

 me, when I slipped the noose over his horns, and 

 with a jerk drew it tight. I then descended and 

 attached the end of the rope to a tree about forty 

 feet from the elk, and we pulled him from the rock, 

 when we left him for the night. It was then half- 

 past eleven, and we were compelled to go three-quar- 

 ters of a mile to find a suitable place for encamping 

 Arriving there I was attacked so severely with ner- 

 vous headache that I could scarcely walk. Campbell, 

 in looking for a suitable camping- place, found a 

 shanty which had been built by a party of hunters 

 the previous night. We found here a bed of coals 

 and plenty of wood cut. Campbell replenished the 

 fire, and prepared a decoction of hemlock boughs 



