PROFESSOR GARDNER'S MISFORTUNE 
Professor Gardner T s party, which was surveying the 
territory North of us at about the same date as that of our 
adventure, was not so fortunate. A hand of Indians attacked 
his camp and kept them under long range gun fire for two or 
three days. The party finally managed in the night to get 
away on their saddle horses taking such things as could he 
carried. As my party ascended one of the valleys on our 
way to the East a few days later, I was greatly surprised to 
see a horseman appear over the summit of one of the mountain 
ridges. He was followed hy another and then another and I 
finally recognized the leader as my friend Dr. Peele, geologist 
of the Gardner party. He was followed hy the party and they 
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were glad indeed to Join me and appease their hunger which was 
fast- tending toward a state of starvation. We were very glad 
to get out of the Indian country and return home. We enjoyed 
speculation, however, as to the possible enjoyment of the 
Indians in utilizing the feather lined sleeping pouch which 
Professor Gardner carried with him on his mountain expeditions. 
