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camp in a lovely open park at the north end of Lewis ijake, the only 

 spot on its shore line which is not densely timbered. On the opposite 

 shore of the lake, about southwest from camp, we saw in the evening 

 a small geyser in eruption. Captain Rhodes and Captain Clark went 

 out hunting over towards Mount Sheridan with Tosar and a couple of 

 soldiers, and returned in the evening with one young elk. The wind 

 was very strong from the southwest this afternoon, raising the surface 

 of the little lake into foamy billows and precluding all attempts at fish- 

 ing. Plenty of good wood, water, and grass. Temperature at 4 p. m. T 

 74°; altitude, 7,875 feet; distance marched, 22 miles. 



August 20, Sunday. — Broke camp at Lewis' Lake at 6:12 a. m ; thence 

 marched northwardly well up on the mountains through dense timber, 

 much of it fallen and burned. Passed around Shoshone Lake, and 

 striking the trail leading from Yellowstone Lake to the Upper Geyser 

 Basin about 12 miles from camp, reached the camping-place of visitors 

 to Shoshone Lake, near the head of the lake, at 10 a. m. There we 

 rested a half hour and then followed the trail across the Continental 

 Divide and down the canon of the Fire Hole River to the Upper Geyser 

 Basin, where we went into camp near Old Faithful, on the identical 

 *. pot where the general and his party camped last year. Here Jack 

 Baronett met us and is to accompany us from here to the Northern Pa- 

 cific Railroad. Temperature at 5 p. m., 60°; altitude, 7,600 feet; dis- 

 tance marched, 26 miles. 



August 21, Monday. — Remained in camp near Old Faithful. The day 

 was passed in revisiting the wonderful and gorgeous natural fountains, 

 the existence of which w r ere unknown only a few years ago, but now 

 are known and read about and wondered about by the intelligent peo- 













pie of all countries. The vandalism which I commented on in my re- 

 port of last year has since been continuing until the whole top of the 

 * crater of the most wonderful of all the geysers, Old Faithful, has been 

 broken down almost out of all recognition. We met here a party of 

 tourists who came into the park from the Utah and Northern Railroad. 

 They are Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. McMasters, Mr. Brown, 

 and Miss White, the latter from Walla Walla, Oreg., and the others 

 from Salt Lake City. Temperature at 7 a. m., 40°; at 5 p. m., 65°. 



August 22, Tuesday. — Broke camp at 6.10 a. m. and marched down 

 the road along the Firehole River to the lower Geyser Basin. We 

 stopped at the Middle Geyser Basin, or Hell's Half Acre, as it is now 

 usually called, to see the grand Sheridan Geyser. This geyser, which 

 has only recently (within two or three years) become an active one, has 

 produced great changes in the appearance of the ground around it for 

 the space of an acre or so since last year. Then its appearance was 

 that of a large and almost circular hot spring, situated on a bluff near 

 and about 25 or 30 feet above the river bank. Now it is an immense 

 cavern, the depths of which are concealed by a constant outpour of 

 steam, and it has worn out a wide and deep gulch, which is its outlet 



