Diary, 1913, of trip with Charles Robert Cross to British Columbia
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Sunday August 3. To 7 miles S.Fork Leeds We left our camp and descend a sharp drift to the valley of Bees River. Left some provision (2 lots) of mackague River and this evening we could travel for about 7 miles, following a trail which had been adapted from an old track which crosses the Bahn Camp to the Buckey Valley. In the afternoon, having so far travelled 7 miles we camped at a good piece for its horns. We saw a golden eagle on the cliff near camp. I spring on which had affixed, but yet down on a ledge about 14 feet below the nest after examining it. I came down by him as to seemed concerned to play. I pushed him gently till my gain went and he launched out on the boulder and dropped down the valley. The nest was evidently an old one and was built on a wall shelf, placed on it were the remains of many rabbits, and groundhog, a goolaint, a marten, blue grasse. The cliffs held many nest of woodpeckers. Cryptogramme acrostrichus from commanding on the rocks