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rifle-stock, several more on shins and elbows, and a 
severe shaking. I even saved my deer-skin as it swept 
past towards some rapids immediately below. Then for 
long leagues we scrambled in and out of black ravines, 
across cruel rocks whose angles we could no longer see, 
feeling a way down moraines or along rock-shelves, 
or through the clinging slime below the snow-slopes. 
Nature had well nigh given way that night ere the 
welcome light of Breiava twinkled across its gloomy 
tarn. 
Including W.’s contribution, our united bag for this 
“ First of September,” comprised :—6 reindeer ; 4t brace 
ptarmigan ; 3| brace trout (8j lbs.) ; 1 lemming. 
Next day, by general consent, was “ an easy.” 
Strict orders were given that no coffee-crushing should 
take place before 6 a.m., at which hour we turned out 
to a sumptuous breakfast of boiled trout, pink as 
salmon, fried reindeer-cutlets, coffee, and yellow-ripe 
peaches (from California). Even then we emptied one 
of our much-prized flasks of 61, ere again we “ took the 
fjeld.” The men carried hatchets, sacks, ropes, and 
a kettle with coffee-berries, we our rods and guns. The 
general order was to bring in as much meat as the men 
could carry, while we supplemented the larder with 
ptarmigan and trout. From the south end of the lakes 
we shot our way towards the scene of yesterday’s opera¬ 
tions, picking up a brace of ptarmigan here and there, 
but not troubling to follow the coveys unless they flew 
straight ahead. 
Then the butchering business commenced, and the 
men, in truly scientific style, cut up the deer into 
quarters and joints, haunches, loins, and so forth. Two 
