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stopped for the night — I do not say camped, because we had 

 nothing to camp with. Tom and his son had nothing but their 

 clothes on their backs and my son and I had a waterproof and 

 possibly only one blanket. The mosquitoes were awful and when 

 we lay down at dark my son and myself got under our waterproof, 

 tucked it in at the sides, and covered our heads. Tom and his 

 son slept either under the bridge or on it, I am not sure which, 

 as I heard no more sounds until after daylight, when I heard 

 a great uproar on the bridge and here Tom was hopping up and 

 down and scourging himself with a brush to keep off the flies. 

 When he saw us he came over and immediately lit a fire and made 

 two or three smokes to drive away the flies. We had breakfast as 

 soon as it could be prepared. I had no idea how to reach the 

 base of Mt. Arrowsmith, but Tom said that he could take us to 

 the base, so we started up from the bridge and, after some time, 

 reached a creek that flowed along the east side of the mountain 

 and emptied into Cameron Lake. We walked up the bed of the 

 creek for quite a distance and reached a spur of the mountain, 

 which came down to it. Here, I took the lead and said that we 

 would go up the spur and that would take us up to the summit of 

 the mountain. We travelled, for a long time, up this slope and 

 the day was very warm and very exciting to us all. Tom and the 

 boys got tired of the slope and thought, to get up quicker, they 

 would attempt a steeper place. This we did and I made no ob- 

 jection and, shortly, they began to show signs of weariness and I 

 took the lead again. 



Some time before noon, we reached the summit of this shoul- 

 der and I called down to them that, if they could make their way 

 to me, there was an open plateau where we could all rest. Event- 

 ually, they reached it and my son was so exhausted that he lay 

 down in the shade and was soon asleep while I hunted around to 

 find water, which I did, and we all rested there for some length of 

 time and had our dinner. From that on, our way to the summit 

 was unobstructed and we reached there late in the afternoon. We 

 made our bivouac amongst the trees of the eastern side of the 

 mountain and, on our right, was a snow slope which led almost to 

 the summit. We enjoyed the view very much and, as the evening 



