78 Hunting Homed Dinosaurs 



CHAPTER V. 



HUNTING HORNED DINOSAUES ON THE EBD DEBE 

 EIVEE. 



Please, dear reader, return with me to the first 

 camp we made below Steveville (Fig. 15). I 

 would like to tell you of our successful hunt for 

 horned dinosaurs, the reptiles that carry on their 

 shoulders the largest known skulls of any land 

 animal living, or dead. I had gone around the 

 flood plain to the mouth of a ravine below camp 

 and following it up to its head searching the de- 

 nuded exposures, on either side. Suddenly, I 

 stumbled on a couple of orbital horn-cores of a 

 new genus of these strange « creatures. The 

 nasals and much of the face had been disintegrat- 

 ed by exposure to rain and frost; one complete 

 lower jaw and part of the other was in place, 

 however. With eager hands I used my little pick 

 and digger, cutting into the face of the cliff. The 

 horn-cores were pointed heavenward. I soon got 

 behind them and followed up the great crest that 

 projected backward into the rock, of which some 

 fifteen towered above; I needed help and return- 

 ed to camp a mile over the hills, for the boys, 

 George and Levi responded to my call. The rock 

 was thrown out and scraped away with team and 

 scraper, tons on tons of it, my enthusiastic as- 



