Western field . that has been handed down fromthe most ancient times. He paused a mo-ment as if buried in thought. And yet,he continued, half to himself, these Indianscan not date further back than two thousandyears. Its very strange, very strange! But, gregosaur or no gregosaur, we atlast had a guide; and within two days wehad secured our pack horses and begun our country became wilder and wilder. Great,towering rocks, almost as high as moun-tains, rose on every side, hemming us incompletely. Through dark forests of oakand pine, through dense thickets of hazeland arrow-wood we slowly and labo
Western field . that has been handed down fromthe most ancient times. He paused a mo-ment as if buried in thought. And yet,he continued, half to himself, these Indianscan not date further back than two thousandyears. Its very strange, very strange! But, gregosaur or no gregosaur, we atlast had a guide; and within two days wehad secured our pack horses and begun our country became wilder and wilder. Great,towering rocks, almost as high as moun-tains, rose on every side, hemming us incompletely. Through dark forests of oakand pine, through dense thickets of hazeland arrow-wood we slowly and laboriouslymade our way. Every now and then a deer,startled by the unaccustomed sight of menand horses, would go crashing through thebrush. Once we saw a great brown bearwhich looked at us curiously for a momentand then turned and fled at the top of itsspeed. At last, on the twentieth evening ofour journey, we pitched our tent upon theshores of Black Lake. Poji and I were feeling tired and somewhat 186 WESTERN FIELD. BLACK LAKE. gloomy, but the professor was in high the time supper was over the night airwas beginning to grow uncomfortably we built a small camp-fire near the tentand stretched ourselves comfortably aboutit. A little later in the evening, at the sug-gestion of Poji, we cleaned our guns andpistols and loaded them with fresh cart-ridges. When we were done the professor turnedsuddenly to Poji. Poji, he said goodnaturedly, I dont think that you reallybelieve there is such a thing as this monsterwhich you call Ijiwat. If you do believeit, why did you come along and risk yourlife? Ijiwat is here! replied the old Indian insuch an impressive tone that I glanced in-voluntarily around. I came with you be-cause I am old and must die soon, anyway! But at any rate the gregosaur did not seefit to terrify us with its presence on that night. Bright and early we arose, ate ourbreakfast, and under the guidance of Pojiset out upon our search for the bones ofthe grego
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