298 SPORTING AND 



ing to be able to kill a bear, and a 

 bison. 



The day of my departure at length ar- 

 rived, and I was awoke out of a very sound 

 sleep that morning by great chattering 

 under my window, and I did not require 

 to be told that the coolies had arrived. I 

 jumped up at once and was soon dressed, 

 and as most of the things were packed 

 over night, it did not take long to com- 

 plete my portmanteau, strap it, and hoist it 

 up on the head of a coolie. I must say 

 my attendants, who were natives of the 

 plains, worked well, for they were all 

 dying to get back to their homes again, 

 as the mountain air is much too cold for 

 them : as a rule they will sit shivering all 

 day long, their teeth chattering from 

 the cold, morning and evening. I fancy 

 this is very much the way they passed 



