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n. Cade
1956
General Account
6 July
more patching dope. About 0200 we
arrived at the "hill of 9 faces" and found a
second gypaenie with 3 advanced young-
all tizzlies. Continued on for another 10
miles and made a temporary rest camp
on a gravel bar. While we were firing some
tea and warming up around a wood fire,
two moose came up on the opposite side of
the river and stopped to look at us ca 100
yds off. Since our food was just about
gone (and at that time I hadn't the vaguest
notion where we were) I consented to Ben's
shooting one of the animals - a yearling - for
food. We took as much of the meat as we
could safely carry in the boats - ca 60 lbs
I left the rest for the wolves. The each ate
a couple of pounds of meat before leaving
that camp. We continued on around 0700,
and arrived at the Colville Bar, mouth
of [illegible], before noon. We looked at bluffs
above the Kittik on the Colville, and then
continued down river for about 10 miles and
made Camp #5 at 1700. The weather had
turned bad again and it was raining before we
made camp, so we had to set up a wet camp,
which was far from comfortable. Also the mosquitoes
were very bad.