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SPORT AND TRAVEL 



noon made my way to the mouth of the creek, where it 

 had been arranged that our new camp should be 

 pitched. Finding nothing there, and a brief examina- 

 tion of the level ground between the river and the side- 

 hill assuring me that our pack train had not yet 



SCENE NEAR CAMP AFTER A LIGHT FALL OF SNOW, NOVEMBER, 1898 



passed, I concluded that something had happened to 

 delay the shifting of our camp, and so started to walk 

 back along the trail leading up the valley of the river, 

 to where I had left my companions in the morning. 



I was trudging along in the snow (for a few inches of 

 new snow had fallen on the preceding night), and was 

 just crossing a large open piece of ground, when I saw 



