the woods” at early morn ought to “mush” behind five pack- 
horses, eating bunch grass, and he would change the tenor 
of his ditty! 
En route saw a band of twelve rams on a mountain ’cross 
the valley from camp, some of them bearing very fine heads; 
but while we are not up to our limit in sheep,—Little still 
having one to kill on his license,—we decided that we have 
enough to satisfy our needs, and did not disturb them. 
Made camp at the head of a large lake, finding good feed 
for the horses. 
Hope to make a long march to-morrow. 
Cloudy. Consumed about eight hours in a march of fifteen 
Sept. 16 th miles, with but one fifteen-minute stop for lunch. Slow 
progress due to the great amount of trail-cutting required. 
Made a good camp about 5.30 this afternoon. Everybody 
is pretty well tired out, and Little and I shall not trouble 
to blow up our air mattresses, being quite sure of resting 
on the bare ground. 
Sept. 17th Made an early start,—the morning being fine, the air 
balmy, and the sun shining. 
Made Ashcroft Trail in about two and a half hours’ march. 
This trail was the scene of innumerable tragedies during the 
Klondike rush of ’98, and even to-day discarded camp-outfits, 
pack-saddles, skeletons of horses, etc., may be seen—mute 
witnesses, all, to the privations and hardships endured by 
thousands of “tenderfeet,”—men who ventured into the wil¬ 
derness at that time without faintest knowledge of what was 
necessary in camp outfit, and the like. Our own Indians told 
us, how time and again, they encountered people suffering 
severely from lack of meat or of other food, when an abun¬ 
dance of porcupine might be found along the very trail; the 
newcomers not knowing that “porky,” (as the animal is 
called,) is a tid-bit to be greatly desired. 
Made our cache,* preparing for it by stripping a tree of 
its bark and then building a platform among its branches. 
After lunching, covered about ten miles, making only a fair 
sort of camp about 5.30 this evening. 
We anticipate reaching the Kappan River to-morrow, and 
*Note.— Cache , a bundle composed of articles of camp-outfit or food, stowed away 
for safe-keeping. 
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