OH, SHOOT! 



of a bold cape, but inasmuch as the Par was 

 rolling drunkenly in the ground swell, we 

 spilled ourselves ashore and went looking for 

 antelope. 



I have never bagged an antelope, but I am 

 told they can be coaxed within range by the 

 waving of a red handkerchief. I do not affect 

 red handkerchiefs, but inasmuch as Eddie had 

 been too busy to shave the members of our 

 party, Carrots had sprung a beard of most 

 extraordinary hue; so I took him with me, 

 it being my idea, upon locating a band of 

 pronghorns, to lie down at ease in the shade 

 and have Carrots show his head above 

 the brush and comb his vermilion whiskers. 

 We had no opportunity of trying this arti- 

 fice, but I pass on the idea for what it is 

 worth. 



Los Angeles Bay, halfway up the inner 

 coast of the peninsula, was a welcome refuge 

 from that angry norther, and thither we crept, 

 keeping our eyes open, en route, for some oil 

 seepages that Salisbury had in mind. We 

 found them, and we would have landed in 

 better weather, for undoubtedly petroleum 

 was bubbling up into the sea. We saw enough 

 to stimulate our active curiosity and to make 



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