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Monday July 18 Telegraph Creek
Join a few small specimens and meet
them at Spirit Bush day out, outfit and making arrangements for
the next train
Tuesday July 19 Telegraph Creek
Shot a few birds and put them up
and worked about arrangements.
Wednesday July 20 Telegraph Creek
Look some birds including kernel
not before seen. In the evening made
a trip to a pond a couple miles.
Each visited Sawmill pond. About it
were many frogs if a kind new to me.
I collected 2 good-sized ones. In the
pond were many leeches and small
insects some of which we collected.
Thursday July 21 Telegraph Creek
Made final arrangements to start
tomorrow. Did my tricks and closed
up all equipment. Got the horses
across the river
Friday July 22 To 3 miles Southeast
We took our stuff across in a large
Canoe shortly. Horses had wandered and there
was some delay in catching them.
We had dinner and got away
about 3:15. We made the first
Camping place about 5 miles out
and had to stop there as there
was no other place for a long way.
We ascended about 500 feet in this
distance, and at our campfire,
Still in Canadian Zone as at
Telegraph Creek.
I saw my new plants of
Consequence Rubus crinitus
was common as soon as we
got out of the paddy. I point to the
open in flowers of the thistles.
At our camp, the ash poplars
are common, the aspen more so.
The pines have apparently been
left behind. Lepidoptera here still seen
at camp. Sheep used to be found on a
out close to our camp 10 miles from
Telegraph Creek.
Dan Bimm tells me that the Tukumi
triple at his cache 150 miles up from