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a dozen rods. We cut the meat all off the bones, rubbed 

 salt into it, and smoked and dried it by the fire and in the 

 sun until partly cured. We did not have good luck with all 

 of it however, as we found on reaching home that some of 

 the larger pieces were tainted, but the most of it was good. 

 This was a big elk, one of the largest I have ever killed; 

 he was fat, and had a heavy pair of horns that were in the 

 velvet. 



We made many other short summer trips with varying 

 success, sometimes getting game, but not always ; but at no 

 other time were we so pestered with mosquitos as on this 

 occasion. 



