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Brobdingnagian dormice. They, however, ate a lot 

 of our stores, and took nearly all the trimmings off 

 Davies' leather coat. In revenge we killed two of 

 them, and I preserved the skin of the finest for our 

 Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 



SETTLERS IN THE FAR WEST, DAVIES, WIFE, AND FATHER-IN-LAW 



On October 28 we moved down the river and 

 pitched our tents close to Davies' cabin. On the 

 way I shot two mule deer, a doe, and a young buck, 

 as Davies, who was not much of a hunter, had asked 

 me to do my best to get him a supply of meat for 

 the coming winter. 



The next day I went up Cabin Creek with Graham, 



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