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he pointed it out with extended finger, exelaimed 

 "Bear!" and again burst into laughter. 



While camping beside our Harvard friends the 

 group around the camp-fire was increased by the 

 presence of a stranger of unprepossessing ap- 

 pearance w T ho stuck to us like a burr. He asked 

 where we were going next and when told the 

 Snake River valley and the Jackson's Hole coun- 

 try he said he was going that way himself and 

 would go with us. As one of the guides of our 

 Harvard friends told us he had reason to believe 

 that the man was one of a band of horse thieves 

 that were operating between us and the Teton 

 Basin we told him that he could have what pro- 

 visions he wanted from our larder, but that we 

 preferred to travel by ourselves. He departed 

 before we were up the next morning and with 

 him went all the choice parts of an antelope and 

 deer which comprised our supply of meat. Our 

 half-breed wanted to go after the fellow, but we 

 thought the riddance was cheap. 



We camped for a few days in the valley of the 

 Gros Ventre River, which was full of game. 



