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quarter of a mile from the line, and the next meal was 

 about eleven o'clock at night. Any refection partaken 

 of after six in those parts is, or rather was, called " lunch," 

 and the joy with which the travellers heard the call 

 " lunch served next stop " was somewhat tempered by 

 the nature of the fare, which consisted largely of pump- 

 kin and apple pie in great cold slabs. The older members 

 of the party certainly suffered from the fatigues and 

 hardships of the journey. The younger only laughed 

 and enjoyed the experiences. To Fitzgerald and Kam- 

 say everything was full of interest. They never tired 

 of watching the differences in the wild growths on the 

 prairie, the animals, not yet sophisticated enough to be 

 timid, and later, when they passed through the Bad 

 Lands, " Les mauvaises terres a traverser," the wild 

 and brilliant colours and strange formation that had 

 given them their name. Before starting, a parcel of 

 light literature had been bought, but at the close of the 

 three weeks' journey only one member of the party had 

 read any of them, and she only one. 



On arriving at the little town of Livingstone, which 

 had been till a few months before the station for the 

 park, but now was only a junction, the party separated, 

 the elder professors going on, while Fitzgerald and the 

 Ramsay s stopped to wait for Buchanan, who had not 

 arrived. As a matter of fact he did not receive their 

 telegram fixing the date of meeting till two days later. 

 Livingstone was in a strange phase of its existence. 

 During the time it was the station for the park, it had 



