Biographical Notice 



The following account of another 

 of King's adventures is given by Mr. 

 Emmons, an eye-witness and a par- 

 ticipant. 



" At the close of the field-work of 

 1 87 1, King joined my party, which 

 had been engaged through the sum- 

 mer in the Uinta Mountains, for a 

 tour of inspection along the northern 

 frontier of that range. One day, as 

 we were starting on an untried route 

 across a piece of ' bad-land ' country, 

 we spied, soon after breaking camp, a 

 grizzly bear in the distance ; and all 

 hands at once gave chase. The bear 

 at first disappeared in a region of 

 sand-dunes, where the party got scat- 

 tered. After some hours' trailing, 

 King, Wilson and I, with a couple of 

 soldiers, ran the trail into a typical 

 net-work of bad-land ravines — a se- 

 ries of narrow gullies with perpen- 

 dicular walls, quite inaccessible for 

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