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good luck, however, I clambered back into my seat 

 without visiting mother earth. 



After progressing for several hours we came out 

 on prairie land, here and there broken by clumps of 

 trees. A variety of pinnated grouse (Tetrao cupido) 

 was most abundant, and exhibited so little fear of 

 our presence that many of them remained on the 

 ground within a few yards of our path. One which 

 we forced to take wing was captured by a large 

 hawk, much resembling a falcon, after a chase of a 

 few hundred yards. 



Well on in the afternoon we again came to the 

 margin of the stream which we had previously left, 

 on account of its bending off nearly due west. For 

 some miles our course was destitute of trees. Shortly 

 before we reached our usual halting-hour we entered 

 a dense growth of timber, in which many of the 

 trees were pines of considerable size. Every indica- 

 tion from which we could form an opinion convincing 

 us that we were far from man's vicinity, we built a 

 large fire, and with considerable comfort enjoyed a 

 good meal, for the air and exercise had sharpened 

 our appetites. Feeling drowsy, I soon went to 

 roost, and my friend was in dreamland before he had 

 finished his first pipe. I was not long in following- 

 suit, but was awakened from my welcome slumbers 

 by a most diabolical noise, which I immediately 

 recognised as that produced by a wolverine. Next 

 day, when we had advanced about twenty miles, we 

 came upon an old and admirable camping-ground, 



