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Proceeding on we found Morrison and Campbell 

 making a fire for us ; they had not killed anything. 

 We there encamped for the night and arranged our 

 hunting matters. The next morning Morrison hunted 

 on the north side of the road, Seaman on the south 

 side and I went on in the road, telling them that I 

 would stand as good a chance as either of them. We 

 were all to meet at four corners about seven miles 

 beyond and encamp that night. Three miles ahead 

 was an open beech woods on the side of a hill down 

 which the road passed ; and in the road, at the bottom 

 of the hill, trotting along towards me, I saw nine 

 wolves. I stepped behind a large beech tree and 

 waited their approach. A large tree with the leaves 

 on had fallen across the road about twenty rods from 

 me, and the wolves came up and stopped behind it, 

 so that I could but partially see one of them. I fired 

 at him and he rolled over once or twice and then got 

 up and ran west. I followed him, but he would skulk 

 around in the tops of fallen trees and thickets. I 

 fired at him three times at a great distance but did 

 not succeed in killing him. I followed him until 

 three o'clock in the afternoon and it was night before 

 I arrived at the place where I first shot at him. Then 

 I had seven miles further to go after dark to our en- 

 campment at the four corners, which I reached about 

 eleven o'clock, very tired. During the night snow 

 fell ten inches deep, and of course covered the wolf's 

 tracks, which prevented me from following him the 

 next day, when I should probably have found him 

 dead. During the day Goodwin returned to Kenzus 



