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beean to vomit soon after our arrival. Should the reader 

 venture to think that our condition was in some measure 

 dependent on the use of alcoholic stimulants, allow me to 

 inform him that no man in our party has tasted a drop of 

 strong drink during the last six weeks. Nothing has been, 

 said in regard to the condition of our photographer at the 

 time of our arrival. I think it must be admitted that he 

 had passed through this trying ordeal somewhat more 

 fortunately than either George Ross or myself, but he 

 frankly admitted that he had never been so greatly 

 fatigued prior to this tramp. We had walked to-day 

 twenty miles, but could have made fifty with more ease 

 had the condition of the roads been favorable to such an 

 effort. I retired to my room, which was well warmed, at 

 an early hour ; but notwithstanding the precaution taken 

 I was seized with a chill, which lasted about half an hour. 

 The wagon with our trophies did not arrive until eleven 

 o'clock that ni^ht. Darkness and the bad condition of 

 the roads had been the cause of the delay. The team was 

 a very strong one and in a very good condition for heavy 

 work. 



Having passed the night tolerably well, our party met 

 at the breakfast-table the following morning about nine 

 o'clock somewhat refreshed. A party of deer-hunters 

 living in this village had proposed a deer-hunt to the 

 captain and wished us to join them in this sport. The 

 hunt was to take place near the village, and we were in- 

 formed that the run-ways could be reached by a buck-board 

 wagon. It was impossible for us to leave here until the 

 following morning, since " Ponta" had wearied during the 



