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ranche. They had very kindly sent a four-wheeled 
open carriage for us; one of those conveyances 
that are generally known as American waggons, 
with enormously high wheels of cobweb - like 
transparency. Jem Bourne had been sent as our 
conductor, having been engaged as my head man. 
There was nothing but prairie throughout this 
uninteresting journey, enlivened now and then by 
a few antelopes. 
Castle Frewen, as the superior log building was 
facetiously called by the Americans, was 212 miles 
from Rock Creek station, and we were well pleased 
upon arrival to accept their thoroughly appreciated 
hospitality. Their house had an upper floor, and 
a staircase rising from a hall, the walls of 
which were boarded, but were ornamented with 
heads and horns of a varietv of wild animals; 
these were in excellent harmony with the style 
of the surroundings. Here we had the additional 
advantage of a kind and most charming hostess in 
Mrs. Moreton Frewen, in whose society it seemed 
impossible to believe that we were so remote from 
what the world calls civilisation. There was a 
private telephone, 22 miles in length, to the station 
at Powder River, and the springing of the alarm 
every quarter of an hour throughout the day was a 
sufficient proof of the attention necessary to conduct 
the affairs successfully at that distance from the 
place of business. 
Our kind friends afforded us every possible 
assistance for the arrangements that were neces- 
