. The land of the muskeg [microform]. Hunting; Chasse. f ^ |y;i «f .j CHAPTER VII ON THK SNOW-LINi; Seplcuiber is/. — Early in the morning we made up our packs, and, turning our backs to the river, started towards the mountain. We each carried a bhmket and a few necessaries, besides four loaves of bread and our rilles. The packs weighed about thirty pounds each, and with a ten- poimd rille made a sufficiently heavy load for mountain- eerintj:. After strusf- gling through about a quarter of a mile of driftwood and underbrush, we came to the foot of the torrent- bed, which seemed the easiest rou
. The land of the muskeg [microform]. Hunting; Chasse. f ^ |y;i «f .j CHAPTER VII ON THK SNOW-LINi; Seplcuiber is/. — Early in the morning we made up our packs, and, turning our backs to the river, started towards the mountain. We each carried a bhmket and a few necessaries, besides four loaves of bread and our rilles. The packs weighed about thirty pounds each, and with a ten- poimd rille made a sufficiently heavy load for mountain- eerintj:. After strusf- gling through about a quarter of a mile of driftwood and underbrush, we came to the foot of the torrent- bed, which seemed the easiest route up the steep slope. The day was very hot, and the heat beat back from the rocks, making the narrcjw gorge into a sort of nafu^al Turkish bath. The small stream rendered the rocks as slipp(!ry as glass, so that we were obliged to rest every two or three IM. •nil-; .siAKi' ». Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Somerset, H. Somers (Henry Somers). London : W. Heinemann
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