plain stretching away in front, with the road cut in halves by the white line of the road. When the tents were up, we set with the things and set away with a bag of steel traps to set for marmots. Within thirty yards of camp we saw our first run when they had disappeared into the holes, we carefully put a trap in place and buried it with an iron tent peg; I did not dare put on a drag for I had no branches or a stick would have been pulled into the hole. I sent them back the two taxi- marmots, and with a bag of wooden traps to see what they could find. We finished our work at seven o'clock, while the sun was still high and came in to dinner. We were both tired for setting steel traps is not an easy job. We had eighteen out in different places, when dinner was over we went on, we had dinner after entrance to the tent, better we could look out on the velvet-green hills of the north-west warmed by the last rays of the sun. It was a perfect night without a breath of wind and with a golden light flooding all the plain. At 7.30 after a smoke over our coffee, we went out with the boys to see what they had placed their traps. We found