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of sufficient size was located to warrant following. 

 After crossing several mountains and seeing noth- 

 ing, but having an eight-mile walk, I came down to 

 the river bottom, and in crossing the swollen St. 

 Clair succeeded in becoming wet and chilled, but 

 finally came into camp with that entirely alive feel- 

 ing that is begotten only by activity. 



September 6. Dixon had been telling us of a 

 wonderful moose range about fifteen miles down 

 the valley and across the range, so the writer de- 

 cided to look it over with the thought of camping 

 there for a few days. We started at six this morn- 

 ing, a large party, as all of us were going along, but 

 after crossing Bull Creek, Hoyt and Hayden took 

 the lower level, Bettle and Baker took a middle 

 course, while Cutting and myself, with Dixon and 

 Albert, took the higher course, going up through 

 timber and traveling along the snow-covered, tundra 

 mountains above timber line, where we could see 

 everything; only there was nothing to be seen, ex- 

 cept snow-covered mountains whose barren monot- 

 ony of white was not even broken by a rock. 



At noon we descended a steep mountain into a 

 ravine where there was some timber, and noticed a 

 lynx and porcupine trail in the snow leading to a 

 spruce tree, but not leaving the tree again; we 

 finally discovered both the lynx and the porcupine 

 had climbed to the top and were looking upon us in 



