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other each of these varieties of timber and every type 

 of condition and site quality, and a known basis, 

 continually re-established, for computing timber 

 values was practically indispensable. Whenever we 

 moved, therefore, from one locality to another, we 

 took these sample plots as an almost invariable pre- 

 liminary to actual cruising. 



At our Sawyer's Peak camp we arranged the mat- 

 ter of tent-mates, for the seven by nine sleeping 

 tents that we carried were each easily large enough 

 for two. Frazer and Bob Moak, who had worked to- 

 gether before, elected to renew old-time relations 

 and bunk together. Brown and Ewing naturally 

 gravitated to the same tent; Bert slumbered in soli- 

 tary state under the big fourteen by sixteen cook 

 tent, and Conway and myself undertook to share a 

 "canvas cave" for the season. This left Horace for 

 Wallace, who did not seem overcome by the honour, 

 but he accepted the situation sans argument, with 

 customary good nature. 



Once settled, our tents set and ditched, we exam- 

 ined the surrounding country with considerable in- 

 terest, for cruising was imminent. We would have 

 much preferred to start in on easy country but the 

 prospect of "pickings" appeared slim. From camp 

 we could see for miles in every direction. The view 

 to the eastward, from Sawyer's Peak, was superb 

 or "fierce," according to what one sought. Yet 

 though we examined it through eyes prejudiced in 

 favour of gently rolling slopes and shallow draws, we 



