having cleared in the meantime) laying out the skins, as 
well as performing all other chores necessary to camp. 
Our hunters returned late in the afternoon with two sheep, 
both very good heads—thirty-four and thirty-six inches, re¬ 
spectively. 
They report having been fog-bound almost four hours. 
When the fog lifted somewhat, they saw three rams at a 
short distance from them. Little bagged one at once and 
wounded another in the head. John then followed the latter 
over the mountain, and, after having looked into seven cor- 
CAMP WORK 
ries, discovered the sheep in the eighth. The animal was at 
the foot of a very steep precipice, but he managed somehow 
to climb down, put it out of its misery, and bring back the 
head, reaching camp very soon after Little. 
This evening snow and rain have again set in. 
Morning dawned foggy, but the sun soon forced its way 
through the clouds, and we broke camp, continuing our 
march toward the Ashcroft Trail. Progress was slow, there 
being a great deal of trail-cutting to do; but, on the whole, 
there was rather easy going. 
Incidentally, the nature poet who writes of the “aroma of 
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