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mountain, Logan's description naturally seemed inaccurate, as the two 
mountains are quite different. So far as we eauld learn our party 
of 1923 is the first party engaged in scientific work that has ever 
ascended or explored Mt. Logan sin^ce its discovery by Sir William Logan 
in 1844-—80 years ago. 
‘Hie botanical results of the trip are not yet fully known as many 
plants are still:] undetermined. it is known, however, that the party 
got scores of. species new to science, nearly all of which have their 
nearest re knOwn-relStiYes in the Rocky or Selkirk Mts., rather than 
anywhere in.the east except 1 ,a few on the unglaciated regions of Canada 
and in the far north. 
You may be interested in a brief description of our equipment, 
which xs was not materially different from the usual equpment on a trip 
of this sort. 
Certain common staples such as potatoes, eggs, canned beans, pork, 
ham, bacon, hard bread, maple syrup, condensed^ milk, cheese, etc., we 
obtained at the last village before going into the woods. But spedqal 
foods were shipped from Boston to Ste. Anne des Monts via boat from 
Montreal. This shipment comprised such things as chocolate, lentils, 
dried prunes, raisins, grapenuts, klim, figs, dried beef, ete. 
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Most of these were obtained ahead o f -t i me- and hauled Smiles into 
the wooas a week or two before we arrived, and were stored in a locked 
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log camp, which became our base camp or depot camp. We went some >5“ 
miles further into the mountains, occasionally sending back to the locked 
camp for more supplies. 
- or shelter we had four tents, two w.p. silk (so-called, which were x&fck®: 
cotton), and two w.p. khaki',,, One was generally used to shelter our 
presses and plants. For clothing most of us wore woollen under 
