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six gallons for each married man in the party. 

 In camp we used it constantly, and it took the 

 place of all other fruit and pickles. As usual, 

 we were unable to get our fossils out of the 

 ground before cold weather came. We secured 

 fifty boxes weighing about twenty-five tons. I am 

 happy to report, also, that after Charlie found 

 his Centrosaurus or Monoclonius skull, and after 

 I had spent four weeks of the most strenuous la- 

 bor of which I am capable, I succeeded in getting 

 a very good skeleton from the pelvis to the end 

 of the tail, of a crested duck-bill. It was especi- 

 ally interesting, because nearly all the impres- 

 sion of the skin was present in a. large section of 

 the tail; giving also, the contour of the tail im- 

 mediately after death. This was the best tail of 

 a trachodont we found. While we were working 

 early and late to get out the material before the 

 real cold weather set in, our horse Bob, in going 

 up a steep and narrow sled road corked his mate, 

 the bay mare. She bled badly, and was put out 

 of commission temporarily, Luckily, Mr. Be- 

 strum, who was assisting us with an extra team, 

 had another horse who took the injured one's 

 place. 



On the twenty-fifth of September, 1914, we got 

 our scow dismantled, and the next day out on 

 land. In the meantime we camped on the sandy 

 flood plain of the river, near our scow. One 

 night my tent blew down on top of me asleep in 

 my cot; however, these are small matters, and 



