Horses till they were frantic with pain & fright, & their wild faces they didn't need from the icy pellets which were driven like a gally wind. Fortunately the storm was almost over and we could go on till we reached the shelter of the heavy forest half mile ahead, Almost as suddenly as it had swept upon us the vast game place & rain and our feet's legs were drenched. —————————— under the skirts of our rain coats. It was a deadly cold note & camp and almost black night when we reached them at 7 o'clock, we had let the Lama stay around an hour later. then drove on with its pack animals and how they ever managed to find their way thru the swamp, across the river & to the camp is mystery to me for the darkness was so intense that it seemed almost like a dead black wall, To Kang had gone to bid welcome arrived but we rounded them out & warmed ourselves in their tent while to make comfiters corn meal pancakes. There we seemed to have been a bottomless pit in each of us, which no amount of food could ever fill and until we were satisfied did we pitch our tent & crawl into our fur bags. The next day, white was bright and cold windy we spent in preparing specimens to take to the city. In fact we, a jungle where we had formerly employed as a boatman but in a young cow moose which we purchased for $7. The Lama tried to extract 20 from us, half of which he