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Durino; the clay Biasir and I, partly for 

 the sake of sport, and partly to keep liim out 

 of harm's way, made a long detour ; but 

 though Tre saw one chamois, we got no shot. 

 Frank's party saw a bear movmg through 

 the scrub in front of them, but never got a 

 good view of him. 



That night we slept curled up most un- 

 comfortably amongst the roots of a huge 

 pme-tree, whose boughs were so thick and so 

 weather proof, that though the rain came 

 down in earnest during the night, none 

 touched us. On the third day we reached 

 our camj)ing-place at the foot of the snow 

 peaks, wherein the tilr were said to dwell. 



Our den was in a small cave some four 

 feet hio-h, the blackened roof of which o;ave 

 signs that it had often been used by hunters 

 before. Besides the traces of fire, there were 

 other proofs of prior occupation by man in 

 the shape of the bones and head of a tur, a 



