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took many photographs, measured many snow-* 

 drifts, and made many notes in my notebook. 

 When night came on, I descended from the crags 

 and snows into the woods, built a fire, and spent 

 the night by it, sleeping for a little while at a 

 time. Awakening with the cold, I would get up 

 and revive my fire, and then lie down to sleep. 

 The next day a severe storm came on, and I was 

 compelled to huddle by my fire all day, for the 

 wind was so fierce and the snow so blinding that 

 it would have been extremely risky to try to cross 

 the craggy and slippery mountain-summits. All 

 that day I stayed by the fire, but that night, in- 

 stead of trying to get a little sleep there, I crawled 

 into a newly formed snowdrift, and in it slept 

 soundly and quite comfortably until morning. 

 Toward noon the storm ceased, but it had delayed 

 me a day. I had brought with me only a pound 

 of raisins, and had eaten these during the first 

 two days. I felt rather hungry, and almost wished 

 I had saved some of the salted peanuts that I had 

 given Midget, but I felt fresh and vigorous, and 

 joyfully I made my way over the snowy crest of 

 the continent. 



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