200 
FOUND AT LAST. 
The last possible point that the wagon could 
be supposed to reach, in a certain direction, was 
agreed upon for a camp ; and when a day’s jour- 
ney distant, the hunters left them to pursue 
different routes to the spot, hunting as they went. 
Before many hours the wagon came to a rock 
upon which two antelope had been placed by a 
hunter, who knew it must pass that way, and at 
night a deer was reported killed. The fates 
seemed suddenly to have relented, for with the 
next night came the welcome news that two elk, 
a male and a female, awaited Mrs. Maxwell’s 
attention at different points in the woods. 
Here, when large game was killed, it was left 
where it had fallen, and she and Mr. Maxwell 
went to it on horseback, taking with them a 
pack-animal. It was her task to superintend and 
assist in removing the skin, to take the measure- 
ments and record^ them with observations in her 
note-book, and see that the skull and other ne- 
cessary bones were prepared for preservation. 
To accomplish this, the next morning, accom- 
panied by Miss E , they went to find the 
buck-elk. It was five or six miles to where it 
lay. Late in the day the parts necessary in 
taxidermy were put upon the pack-horse and 
secured there by ropes. Two of the other horses 
were packed, one with the body of a young deer, 
the other with part of a full-grown one, both 
