The result was "too funny for anything," The mountain was very 
steep for a long distance below and covered with loose stones 
and scattering trees, Down this slope the "bear plunged and the 
"big stone and many other loosened stones after it - rattle, "bang, 
crash - until the cliffs re-echoed the uproar. I never saw a 
"beast make such time and the stones were more rapid than he and 
made enormous leaps until they caught up with him and both, with 
many added stones, went out of sight together down into a rocky 
gorge nearly half a mile below me. It was a laughable termina- 
tion of the incident, but a good riddance of an ugly customer. 
The wild mountain declivities echoed probably for the first time 
in their history with roars of amused laughter tinged possibly 
with a shade of relief on the laugher T s part, 
I soon reached the top of the cliff by. a very ticklish 
climb, pulling myself up by little notches in the rocks, and 
the gooseberry bushes that grow in the crevices. From the 
summit I had r a broad view of the valley and the surrounding 
mountains, made a sketch and cut my initials and the date in 
the rock that forms the extreme point of a projecting shelf of 
the plateau and then, on account of a thunder storm which sudden- 
ly broke across the plateau I hurried down to my mule. In the 
rain I pulled the unwilling animal by main force down the steep 
mountain face. 
Taking a different course from the ascent I encountered 
a cliff midway in the slope and had a hard time, going back 
again and taking another spur and getting into camp late, wet 
and tired. The boys were quite excited that a bear should be 
so near and wanted to go on a hunt. 
