MOUNT RAINIER 



merrily as a cannon ball just shot from a thirty- 

 pounder as they passed my head. 



Our party left the summit about two o'clock, and 

 some of us reached "Camp of the Clouds" by six 

 o'clock, descending in four hours the same distance 

 that we were twelve hours in covering on the upward 

 climb. The names of the party making this very suc- 

 cessful ascent are : John Muir, P. B. Van Trump, A. C. 

 Warner, D. W. Bass, N. O. Booth, C. V. Piper and 

 E. S. Ingraham. 



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