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The doctor and the writer sat near to the burnt 

 land until it became dark without seeing anything 

 whatever, and we very reluctantly retraced our steps 

 to the cabin. On the walk back we heard two rifle 

 shots fired on the river, and we surmised that they 

 were signal shots fired by our guide for the Lower Bear 

 River journey. "We sat up quite late, expecting him to 

 arrive at any minute, but he failed to put in an ap- 

 pearance. 



The following morning there was no word or sight 

 of him, so we reluctantly gave him up, and the pro- 

 posed fateful journey down the Bear River as well. 

 This was a great disappointment to us, as we had raised 

 our hopes to a high pinnacle of future success in canoe- 

 ing down the two rivers, and to see them drop like a 

 house of cards vexed us sorely. 



It had been agreed that in case the man did fail us 

 Dr. Hughes would take Kibbee and another man with 

 horses and travel to Indian Point Lake. Moose were 

 said to frequent that lake and a smaller body of water 

 named Beaver Lake. Then, after hunting around these 

 two pieces of water, Kibbee and the doctor would climb 

 a high mountain as yet unnamed in search of moun- 

 tain goats, while a boatman was to go with me back to 

 the Upper Bear River again. 



So Neil, the boatman, and the writer pushed off 

 early in the morning in the face of a fierce wind blow- 

 ing straight in our faces. Dr. Hughes and Kibbee 



