SAWYER’S PEAK 29 
other each of these varieties of timber and every type 
of condition and site quality, and a known basis, 
continually re-established, for computing timber 
values was practically indispensable. Whenever we 
moved, therefore, from one locality to another, we 
took these sample plots as an almost invariable pre- 
liminary to actual cruising. 
At our Sawyer’s Peak camp we arranged the mat- 
ter of tent-mates, for the seven by nine sleeping 
tents that we carried were each easily large enough 
for two. Frazer and Bob Moak, who had worked to- 
gether before, elected to renew old-time relations 
and bunk together. Brown and Ewing naturally 
gravitated to the same tent; Bert slumbered in soli- 
tary state under the big fourteen by sixteen cook 
tent, and Conway and myself undertook to share a 
‘“canvas cave’’ for the season. This left Horace for 
Wallace, who did not seem overcome by the honour, 
but he accepted the situation sans argument, with 
customary good nature. 
Once settled, our tents set and ditched, we exam- 
ined the surrounding country with considerable in- 
terest, for cruising was imminent. We would have 
much preferred to start in on easy country but the 
prospect of ‘‘pickings’’ appeared slim. From camp 
we could see for miles in every direction. The view 
to the eastward, from Sawyer’s Peak, was superb 
—or ‘‘fierce,’? according to what one sought. Wet 
though we examined it through eyes prejudiced in 
favour of gently rolling slopes and shallow draws, we 
