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giving me the chance of anything but a very long 

 running shot. Some of the does and kids then 

 came trotting past within one hundred yards of me ; 

 but for them I had no use. 



Graham had engaged two most excellent fellows, 

 both of them Englishmen, to accompany us on our 

 trip and assist in all camp work. C. and T. were both 

 of them well-connected and well-educated men, who 

 came with me more for the fun and adventure of the 

 outing than for any other consideration. I never wish 

 for, nor could have, more pleasant and willing com- 

 panions on a hunting trip, and there was never a 

 cross word between any of our party during all the 

 time we were together. 



During the next four days we travelled steadily up 

 the North Fork of the Stinking Water River ; and hav- 

 ing then reached a point which we judged to be about 

 twelve miles to the east of the Yellowstone Park, we 

 chose a good site for a camp, and resolved to have a 

 look through the surrounding country for game, as we 

 had already seen fresh tracks of both wapiti and mule 

 deer. Soon after leaving the Sulphur Springs I shot 

 and preserved for the British Museum a specimen of 

 the white-tailed prairie marmot (Cynomys leucurus). 

 These little animals are very nearly allied to the com- 

 mon prairie marmot (Cynomys ludovicianus). The 

 Bighorn chain of mountains seems to divide the ranges 

 of the two species in the State of Wyoming, for whilst 

 all the prairie marmots I saw to the east of the Big- 



