the average rate of travel is about 
twenty miles in eight hours. And the 
day when I first took the ribbons in my 
hands to guide four horses we were 
from nine in the morning till five at 
night going twelve miles. This was 
the way of it: 
Nimrod and I were on a hunting trip 
in the Canadian Rockies, and as the 
government map said there was a road, 
though not a good one, we decided to 
carry our belongings in a four-horse 
wagon, in which we could also ride if 
we liked, and to have saddle horses be- 
sides. 
Green, a man of the region, was the 
driver and cook, and we had as guest a 
famous bear hunter from the Sierra 
Nevadas. On the first two days out 
from the litthe mountain town where 
we started, we saw many tracks of 
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