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He loved, too, to crawl under the fly of my tent 

 and curl up for the night at the foot of my 

 blanket. 



I spent a portion of the day cleaning and 

 skinning the paws of the cougar, and as I 

 finished each paw, threw it away some distance 

 from the camp. " Nigger " carefully watched 

 my proceedings, and when he thought I was not 

 looking, slunk away and had soon retrieved 

 each paw, and carefully buried it for future 

 use. Poor beast ! I expect he had experi- 

 enced many a hungry day and instinct had 

 taught him to make provision for the future. 



September 4th. Smith and Thomson had 

 not returned, which meant another wasted 

 day. Here we were the sixth day out from the 

 lake, but we had only made two marches and 

 were not yet in our hunting ground. Eustace 

 Smith had said it was only a two or three 

 days' march at the outside but he probably 

 travelled alone, very light, and knew his way. 

 The two men turned up about 3 p.m., pretty 

 well tired out, as they had been walking all 

 the day before and from 6 o'clock in the 

 morning. They reported the country ahead 

 very bad going, but they had found a river 

 which must have had its source in the Keogh 

 Lake; the lake itself they had not reached. 

 I had caught about a dozen salmon parr, so 



