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SPORT AND TRAVEL 



growing dusk. As soon as I had cleaned the carcass 

 and laid it belly downwards on the snow, I started for 

 camp, carrying the head cut off with a good long neck 

 skin, and all the inside fat with me. In recrossing the 

 river I got on to a piece of thin ice, and went through. 

 As the depth of water was under three feet, not much 



SCENE OF OUR NIGHT'S BIVOUAC IN THE SNOW, NOVEMBER 20, 1898 



harm was done, though it was uncomfortable, as the 

 temperature of the air was just then well below zero. 



By the time I rejoined my companions about two 

 miles lower down the river, it would have been quite 

 dark, had it not been for the light of the moon, which 

 shone most brilliantly, from a clear and cloudless sky, 

 over the snow-covered landscape. I found them pre- 



