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and sox and crossing in bare feet, but that he would 

 rather have wet boots than have his feet torn and 

 cut on sharp bowlders in the bottom of the stream. 

 The writer claims that there is much reason why a 

 man who carries a five-pound camera when moun- 

 tain climbing should be entitled to six pounds of 

 caribou meat for supper; the others are a bit doubt- 

 ful of the correctness of the conclusion, but we 

 demonstrated that by carrying the camera up ten 

 thousand feet yesterday we performed the equiva- 

 lent of lifting a ton twenty-five feet, and it is agreed 

 that hereafter the writer may have a whole caribou 

 for his evening meal. 



In the afternoon Wright went out to look for the 

 horses and found two have entirely " jumped the 

 range " and are probably twenty-five miles back on 

 the Donjeck bottom, feeding on pea vine. Ac- 

 cordingly Wright has taken a three days' grub 

 supply and started on the back trail for a horse 

 hunt. 



We have held a council and decided to move 

 camp to-morrow to a point farther into the range. 

 We will split the hunting party, Cutting going one 

 way with Hayden, Bettle and Wolcott with Dixon 

 taking a different course, Hoyt and the writer with 

 Baker following a middle course, while Fisher with 

 Bones and the Indian will bring along the pack train. 

 We are all to meet at night at a camping place which 

 only Dixon knows, but which is described as being 



