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better than I have been since my illness.^ If any one 



had told me then that I should ever ride desperately 



hard over broken country all day long, and then sleep 



in a tent with the thermometer at io° below zero, 



without being a bit the worse, I should have told 



him that he lied.' 



' Fort Bridger, Wyoming, 

 ' 2 5//z August. 



' We returned yesterday from a ten days' hunting 

 trip into Utah, on the western slope of the Rockies. 

 A most curious country of sandstones and limestones 

 with immense glacial moraines ; the river- courses 

 fringed with thickets of willows wherein the bears 

 love to dwell ; the hillsides covered with pines and 

 shaking aspens ; and great moors covered with sage- 

 bush, and in this sage-bush lives the magnificent big 

 grouse which they call the sage-hen. We had but 

 poor sport, and I had to half support the party by 

 catching trout which abounded infinitely in all the 

 streams. Campbell, however, had a turn-up with a 

 grizzly. He was stretched full length on the grass 

 near a pond, with a double-barrel, looking out for 

 deer, when he heard something crushing through the 

 bushes, and suddenly an immense grizzly walked out, 

 almost on top of him. He fired slap at him — when 

 he reared — let him have the other barrel, then 

 skurried away for dear life, with the bear after him 

 like ten thousand of bricks, as he thought, but having 

 reached a tree, he glanced round, and saw, to his no 



^ A severe attack of abscess of the liver contracted in Syria in 1868. 



