50 ADVENTURES IN THE WILDERNESS. 



the docf drives a deer into the lake, and, rowing 

 up beside the poor frightened and struggling thing, 

 the guide holds him by the tail while you blow 

 his brains out ! Bah ! I should be ashamed to 

 ever look along the sights of a rifle again if I had 

 ever disgraced myself with any such " sporting " (!) 

 as that ! At this time of the year rain-storms are 

 unknown in this region, and the thunder-showers 

 which occur are a source of pleasure, and not of 

 inconvenience, to a camp. No more sublime sight 

 can the eye behold than is presented to it when 

 such a shower passes over these mountains. 



HEALTHFULNESS OF CAMP LIFE. 



I am often asked if ladies would not " catch cold " 

 in the woods, and if the physical exertion which 

 one must put forth is not such as to forbid that 

 any but robust people should undertake the trip. 

 To this I reply that I believe it to be a physical 

 imj^ossibility for one, however fragile or delicate, 

 to " catch cold " in this wilderness. Remember 

 that you are here in a mountainous region, where 

 dampness and miasma, such as prevail in lower 

 sections, are entirely unknown. Consider, too, 

 how genial and equable is the climate in the 

 summer months, and how pure and rarefied the 

 atmosphere. Eemember, also, that you breathe an 



