Camping and Hunting in ike Shoshone 



tion ? There is no land where nature 

 recreates a man as she does there. You 

 literally renew your youth. The climate 

 is invigorating beyond words. For ner- 

 vously exhausted men, for weary brains, 

 there is simply nothing to touch it. I 

 have gone to the mountains thoroughly 

 fagged out, unable to sleep well or eat 

 well — life a burden, and work an im- 

 pending horror. In a fortnight I have 

 been eating as many meals a day as I could 

 prevail on my men to cook, and have 

 been glad to fill up chance spaces in my 

 internal economy with raw bacon. Yes, 

 many a time, after a monumental dinner, 

 w^hen we have gone into camp at five in 

 the afternoon, have I eaten with relish 

 that most lasting of all provisions, a piece 

 of raw bacon, before turning in. It is 

 true, some at first find the rarefied atmos- 

 phere of the mountains trying to chest 

 or heart, and many also complain of loss 

 of appetite and loss of sleep ; but if the 

 man is sound in limb and lung, and if he 

 does not overdo it or overexert himself at 

 the very beginning, but does take regular 

 exercise, in ten days or so all life seems to 

 awaken within him ; he may not sleep £0 

 long or so heavily, for he has probably 

 camped at an altitude of eight or nine 



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