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had put his foreleg through the lariat-rope around his neck 

 and this had thrown him down. Of course, after thumping 

 around among the rocks all night, he was strangled and nearly 

 dead when we found him in the morning. We nursed him 

 during the day, and at one time thought he might survive. 

 but in vain, when night came 

 con gave out, and our meat 

 there were plenty of trout, ai 



L. and Joe tried hard to ga 

 had to give it up ; but they got * 



of a deer, only part of which hey could brn*g iiuuie, as they 

 were already loaded with instruments. It rained almost in- 

 cessantly. We were very much disheartened, and talked 

 seriously of doing other work in the way of returning and 

 joining Fort Bridger to our system. The experiences of the 

 morning with electricity were rather more alarming than 

 usual. No. 1 8 (which we never included in our triangulation) 

 was shattered to pieces before our eyes, when we were 

 scarcely one hundred paces distant. 



AUGUST 18, SATURDAY. 



M. and Joe started once more for the same ridge, but were 

 again disappointed by the storms. They built a fire to keep 

 warm by, under one of the ledges, and when they saw that 

 the rain was likely to continue, went off hunting. They suc- 

 ceeded in getting another deer, and brought home the best 

 parts of it. It commenced to rain torrents just after supper, 

 and rained all night. 



AUGUST 19, SUNDAY. 



We all went to the mill to-day, passing through our last 

 camp about sunrise. We found a bear had been there after 

 our meat that was left, but the fellow was gone, much to Joe's 

 and our disgust. We arrived at 10.30 A.M., just in time to 

 see Steel drive up with the wagon. There were lots of 

 papers and a bundle of letters for both of us, and we enjoyed 

 a regular treat, as well as distributing them to the various 

 mill hands. Old Jimmie, the cook, made a very good dinner, 

 with the rare additions of hot biscuit and pie. After this, the 

 hands went after Joe to get some of their money back, but 



