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top. It was about 8.30 P. M. when I left the sum- 

 mit, on snowshoes, and swept down the steep 

 northern slope into the woods. This hurry caused 

 no unusual heart or muscle action. 



The next morning was cloudy as low down 

 as ten thousand five hundred feet, and, for all I 

 know, lower still. The night had been warm, 

 and the morning had the oppressive feeling that 

 dominated the morning before. The clouds broke 

 up before nine o'clock, and the air, with haze in 

 it, seemed yellow. About 10.30, haze and, soon 

 after, clouds came in from the southeast (at this 

 time I was high up on the southerly slope of Mt. 

 Richthofen), and by eleven o'clock the sky was 

 cloudy. Up to this time the air, when my snow- 

 glasses were off, burned and twitched my eyes in 

 the same manner as on the previous morning. 



Early in the afternoon I left Grand Ditch 

 Camp and started down to Chambers Lake. I 

 had not gone far when drops of rain began to 

 fall from time to time, and shortly after this my 

 muscles began to twitch occasionally under elec- 

 trical ticklings. At times slight muscular rigidity 

 was noticeable. Just before two o'clock the clouds 



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