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that we should follow up this trail. The blood-stains V 

 were numerous about the bed from which the cow «■ 

 had so recently risen, and the white snow was found ^41^^ 

 to be copiously marked during the first half-mile ,/'>^*iv; 



of the trail, but alter this distance had beenv f, fr 



, , 1 • 1 ^^ '^ 



passed over these markings were less numer- . , ' ' ."X 



oub. It was confidendy thought by our guides, 



while we were making the first part of our 



journey along this trail, that we would soon 



find her lifeless body, but we continued 1' i-^,i. 

 our search until warned by the near ap- 

 proach of sunset that we ought 

 to retrace our steps and make 



.^K^ 







The dead monarch. 



