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toward tuein, but as they met, the does left the water 

 ran down the stream about half a mile, and went 

 into the creek where Wilson and my brother hap- 

 pened to be with the canoe. The does stopped in 

 the water, where it was three feet deep, and they 

 shot them, dragged them out of the water and cut 

 their throats. I then sent my dogs after an elk, 

 which ran into the stream from the east bank, near 

 where they were pulling the canoe over some rapids. 

 The elk approached within thirty feet of them before 

 they were observed, but they were so much excited 

 that they did not take good aim, and both missed. 

 The elk ran down the stream, about half a mile, when 

 the dogs stopped them, and Knapp shot one of them. 

 Two of us skinned and dressed the elk, while the 

 other two made a pine trough holding about four 

 barrels, in which to salt the meat. When the meat 

 was cut from the bone and nicely salted down in the 

 trough, we put it under a bank in a cool place, and 

 covered it over with large, flat stones, over which we 

 placed larger ones, and then rolled on two large logs 

 which we fastened down with withes. We then 

 broke the bones and extracted the marrow, of which, 

 and the fat, we secured forty-five pounds from the 

 three elk. The next day, leaving the meat there, but 

 taking the tallow and skins, we proceeded up the 

 creek, and the second day killed two large, fat does, 

 which we dressed and quartered, and laid the meat 

 in the canoe. We arrived at the place of rendezvous 

 about two o'clock, and proceeded to erect a log house. 

 When tliis was completed, we tried the tallow, saked 



