A California Deer Hunt A 
owner cox | Lith Amundsen 
FRIENDS had oon talking of a plac to the South Pole. 
there was great sport hunting deer. 
They were going again and had every- Mr. He M. Bennett 
thing ready when I decided to go along. U. S. Agt., Carl Zeiss 
In order to get to this place, it re- Dear Mr. Bennett: 
auires night driving across the Mojave My most prized possession 
desert and a lot of hard mountain is my Carl Zeiss Binocular, 
climbing, especially after leaving Ca- which is just as good today as 
liente. when I bought it in 1902, It 
I started on ahead, and as pre-ar- has been my constant companion 
on every trip for the past 22 
years, including my trip to the 
South Pole. It has withstood 
every known climatic condition 
and very severe use. I do not 
We were somewhat ahead of the deer hesitate to recommend Zeiss 
season, so we went to the Kern river to Binoculars most highly. 
try our luck at trout fishing. However, aoa e 
we were soon back at Havilah arrang- see Ax Xx 
ing for a pack horse and getting prop- 
erly lined up. 
The day before the deer season 
opened we hiked in as far as King Sol- 
omons mine, and decided to hunt 
around there a little. We put the horse 
in an old barn and slept in what once 
ranged was to wait for the crowd at 
Tehachapi. Around midnight they 
came along and the big outing seemed 
really begun. 



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exploring and hunting expeditions at the Pole is the glass that 

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but felt it worth the effort, as we came 
out into a most beautiful and strange 
new world. Even the squirrels and 
birds are entirely different. 
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hundred feet above sea level, and the 
air seemed more bracing. There were 
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