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June and part of July, I wandered around collecting and, early in 

 the month of July, returned to Calgary, where William S. met me 

 and we started from there for the Crow's Nest Pass. This was 

 the year that the railway through the Pass was being built and I 

 was sent to see the character of the country in the vicinity. I 

 bought my outfit at Fort Macleod and hired a man with a large 

 wagon to take it up to the pass. It was about seventy-five miles 

 away and we took the greater part of two days to make the jour- 

 ney. When I arrived at the Pass, I found the Northwest Mounted 

 Police had a station there. The second day after I came to the 

 Pass, I was out collecting when a large number of French Cana- 

 dians from Ottawa arrived and they had a great quantity of sup- 

 plies with them, including a lot of dynamite. This dynamite 

 was placed within less than thirty yards of my tents and they had it 

 covered only with tarpaulins ! When coming back from my morn- 

 ing trip, I saw the heap of stuff and lifted the cover and looked 

 under and saw the boxes marked "Dynamite." I immediately 

 went to the Corporal who had command of the Police and informed 

 him regarding the dynamite and asked him, in the name of the 

 law, to have that removed at once to a place of safety, not merely 

 away from my camp, but right away from the camp altogether. 

 The Corporal acted at once and we had the dynamite removed 

 immediately to the opposite side of the lake, which was a great 

 relief to all parties concerned. 



For the next month, William S. and I clambered round 

 amongst the mountains and made large collections of animals and 

 plants. In one of our excursions, when pretty well up a moun- 

 tain, we looked up and could see clouds passing the other side of 

 the mountain and, on further examination, we discovered that 

 there was an opening through from one side to the other, but we 

 found it inaccesible, when we tried to climb up. We noticed, 

 further, that thunder-storms would often pass over our heads 

 and no rain take place except on the higher mountains. The 

 trees all showed the prevailing winds to be from the south west. 

 After completing our work at Crow's Nest Pass, we returned to 

 Calgary and soon after that I started for home. 



