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rodeup. ‘‘What has he got to say ?”’ he asked, and 
the wandering one, hearing the question, proceeded 
to run rapidly over the resources of the place, lay- 
ing great stress upon the ease with which moose 
calves could be caught, crated, and exported. H. 
asked our informant if he was busy, and on his re- 
plying in the negative, told him we would pay him 
five dollars a day if he would go with us, and that 
there would be a horse for him presently. The fel- 
low, who was called Tex, said he was a ‘‘sport’’ him- 
self, and would accept the offer; so leaving him 
waiting for the horses, we struck the trail, con- 
gratulating each other on our good luck, and decid- 
ing to hunt the Basin every year ourselves and pro- 
cure some good heads. 
Presently we reached a cabin with the words 
“‘T'rapper Jim’’ above the door. Here we rested 
until F’. and the outfit came up. Buck told us this 
Jim had killed seventeen bears during the previous 
winter. On the platform at Council we had seen 
a worthy hunter, who twenty years before had had 
‘‘experiences’’ with a wounded grizzly. It had 
taken off his scalp and the left side of his face in- 
cluding the eye. The poor old fellow was a fear- 
ful warning to careless hunters. When picked up 
some time after his encounter he was almost ‘‘all 
in’’ and the dead bear lay a short distance away. 
We passed a good road leading to a place called 
Bergoft’s Hot Springs, and our men were most 
anxious that we should go there for the advantages 
that the baths afforded, and also because it was a 
beautiful spot, but we explained that we had seen 
