222 BIG GAME FIELDS 



small rooms, whose outside walls are decorated 

 with hieroglyphics, some cut, others painted or 

 stained on their surfaces. The winding river is 

 hemmed in by great walls of rock running to a 

 dizzy height. The scene here at nightfall was 

 mysterious, weird, tenanted only by the winds 

 that sighed and moaned down through its bot- 

 toms and up through the crags. 



After crossing the Divide we descended to 

 some five or six thousand feet above sea level and 

 made our first permanent camp in a great, wild, 

 unnamed gorge. The huge, silent hills, sheer 

 walls of rocks and giant, solid pines, made one 

 ever mindful of these fastnesses, and that we had 

 at last entered the confines of the grizzlies' own 

 domains. There is a vastness in his size and 

 strength that makes him a fit inhabitant for these 

 regions. 



Upon the ensuing morning Hi and myself 

 w r ere away in an early start, leaving Manuel and 

 the hounds in camp. We proposed to start out 

 on foot this morning, quietly survey the sur- 

 rounding country, look for bear signs, and, as is 

 the custom the first day, bring in a little meat for 

 camp if possible. It was my intention to try to 

 locate where some bears were in the habit of feed- 

 ing, or some point they would pass on their way 



