ground and freezing air. My purpose was not to sleep, 

 but keep awake. "Tired Nature," however, wouldn't 

 be denied her "sweet restorer,'' and soon I was in a 

 slumber that lasted till eleven o'clock, wlien I awoke to 

 find the cold intense. Piling more wood on the fire, I 

 threw myself again on Mother Earth's bosom and slept 

 till two, when the frost settling on my face like sharp 

 needles awoke me. Again I replenished tlie fire and 

 again slept till five, when I awoke in time to catch 

 Aurora at her morning task of decorating the oriental 

 sky. And, 1 may safely say, I never watched her with 

 greater satisfaction, for never before was daylight so 

 welcome to me. 



Our search now was for water, but we succeeded in 

 finding none. We did find, however, under an upturned 

 cedar root, a thin sheet of ice. This we broke and melted 

 in our tin cup over the fire and then cooked our capsules 

 in it. Such was our breakfast, and I am rather sure 

 the Roman glutton Lucullus never experienced greater 

 satisfaction over one of his ten thousand dollar dinners 

 than we did over that simple meal of bouillon. 



After our breakfast we found a lumber road and 

 followed it for about tlnx-c- miles to a great marsh or 

 meadow. Here we obtained our bearings, discovering 

 that we were about five miles from camp which we reached 

 at eleven o'clock that forenoon, thank hi 1 and happy to 

 see once more our white tent and the guide we had lelt 

 behind whose anxious face told plainly of his alarm at our 

 absence. He had been firing shots at frequent intervals 

 during the night, but the distance between us prevented 

 our hearing them. We had been tramping around an 



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