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night before. When it was finished Wright picked 

 up the inch-thick loaf, looked at it curiously, tasted 

 it, and then inquired of Baker: " Pretty good tan 

 youVe got on it, but what do you use it for? A 

 saddle pad?" When we came to eat it we found 

 a little lasted a long time, and voted that our guide 

 had not been fittingly named, and hereafter he 

 should forget his deluded parents had named him 

 Jim Baker and should respond to the more fitting 

 name of Jim " Tanner.'* 



August 26. Bitter cold last night, but we were 

 entirely comfortable, sleeping out in our eiderdown 

 robes with no tent and with the glacier but two hun- 

 dred yards from our willow patch. This morning 

 we found everything frozen up tight, which looks 

 like an early winter in this country, as the range is 

 covered with new snow fallen upon the peaks. We 

 decided to go farther up the glacier and hunt the 

 mountains for sheep, which do not seem to be on this 

 side of the range, though we have already looked 

 over many miles of the range without seeing a single 

 sheep. About ten miles farther up the glacier we 

 saw a small band of rams and in order to get a 

 better look at them, as well as to look over the peaks 

 beyond, we climbed through a canyon up to the rock 

 slope and continued up until we were above the rams, 

 which were only four years old with heads that were 

 too small. We did not molest these snow-white 

 sheep, but climbed higher until we could look over 



