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black bear, which encouraged the hunt- 
ers to think that they might find a 
grizzly (which, by the way, they did 
not). 
The dust was thick and red, envelop- 
ing us all day long like some horrible 
insistent monster that had resolved it- 
self into atoms to choke, blind and 
strangle us. Nimrod looked like a clay 
man — hair, eyebrows, mustache, skin, 
and clothes were all one solid coating 
of red dust. We were all alike. Even 
the sugar, paper-wrapped in the bot- 
tom of a box, covered by other boxes, 
bags and a canvas, became adulterated 
almost past use. 
On the fourth day this einsed and 
we camped at the foot of a granite 
mountain. It made one think of the 
Glass Mountain of fable, with its 
smooth stretches of polished rock shin- 
