Camping and Hunting in (he Shoshone 



A Dead Grizzly. 



The third piece of advice is worth both 

 the others : Go slow. Go slow when you 

 are going up ; all good walkers start slow. 

 Once get thoroughly leg-weary, and all 

 enjoyment for the day is over. I first 

 learned the need of going slow in 1868 ; 

 we were after goats, our first goats too ; 

 there they were, not fifteen hundred feet 

 above us, and an easy stalk. Between our 

 camp and the mountain-foot a soft, boggy, 

 mossy swamp, full of dead timber, stretched 

 for above half a mile. We had Indians 

 (never take Indians ; they are not worth 

 their keep as hunters). We had done 



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