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heat, but burns quickly, so after supper we added 
logs of cedar. I noticed that the stones which had 
been placed around this fire were soon blazing, ow- 
ing to their impregnation with mineral oil. A 
coal prospector who lived in a cabin near by visited 
us and told us stories of deer stalking in the coun- 
try around. 
All hands were astir early, and after breakfast 
a move was made further up the canyon. I found 
a fresh deer’s head stuck in the fork of a tree, 
which looked encouraging, but by lunch time we 
had seen no other more substantial signs than 
tracks. Going a little further, we camped again 
in a creek bed, where, however, some water was 
still flowing which supplied us. Having deposited 
our belongings, we determined to climb to a plateau 
on the south side of the canyon before dark and 
to see whether deer tracks were numerous and re- 
cent. The ascent was steep, but the view from the 
top was fine. We looked away west over the Utah 
Desert and east to a rugged mountain range. 
Owing to the arrangement of the strata on the cliffs 
bounding this range on the west, the name Book- 
cliff was applied to these mountains. We found 
fresh deer tracks everywhere, but as it was getting 
late we returned to camp to have a good rest be- 
fore the morrow’s chase. As there were lots of 
cottonwoods growing by the creek, the fire was a 
success, but a camp in a narrow canyon is always 
weird and this was no exception. 
Next morning we were up and off very early and 
the plateau was reached shortly after dawn. We 
