. Our country: West. e. The wall rockon either hand became higher and higher. Little springs from the side flowed in and bub-bled up from the base ofthe high walls. Pockets,meadows, thickets and ra-vines increased in numbers,and the great hanging wallsabove our heads closed untilthe daylight was almostexcluded. Deer were veryabundant, but all othergame had disappeared. Selecting one of thewidest of the little pocketsor side valleys, we began toclimb a deer trail leadingup the mountainside. Since we left camp wehad travelled due east, andnow we went up the south side of the wall, and soon found
. Our country: West. e. The wall rockon either hand became higher and higher. Little springs from the side flowed in and bub-bled up from the base ofthe high walls. Pockets,meadows, thickets and ra-vines increased in numbers,and the great hanging wallsabove our heads closed untilthe daylight was almostexcluded. Deer were veryabundant, but all othergame had disappeared. Selecting one of thewidest of the little pocketsor side valleys, we began toclimb a deer trail leadingup the mountainside. Since we left camp wehad travelled due east, andnow we went up the south side of the wall, and soon foundourselves in the wildest of scenery. On our right was the snow range, with glistening topsflashing like polished silver. The valley had been verywarm, but the change to a colder temperature was perceptibleat an elevation of five hundred feet. We were going out ofsummer into winter, and all within a mile or two. The air became so thin that one could not run at all,and every few hundred steps our breath gave out, and a. The Narrow Valley. THE BIGHORN CANON. 7I short rest was necessary. We were entering the confines ofperpetual winter. Working forward over the snow line, we found thestunted old pine-trees becoming more and more gnarled,and most of them dead or dying. Here and there, in thecrevice of a rock, we found a bush growing which borebrown berries that were sweet to the taste and not unpleasanteating. Here and there little red and striped chipmunks friskedabout, and shot in and out of the rocks. They seemed largerthan the chipmunks of the East, but were evidently the sameanimal. We also saw several large rock-rats, or mountainsquirrels, which inhabit these high regions. Some of themwere as large as small prairie-dogs, and were like themexcept in their movements. These animals are sluggish, and shooting at them doesnot seem to alarm them in the least. They drag themselveslazily in and out of their holes and act as if they were deaf. Above the ground-vines rise ranges of gran
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