from mile to walk to camp. Every one reached camp safely but my tride. I did not intend to climb the entire peak and by an accident I had Ross' lunch which consisted of biscuits and fried Prairie Dogs. The latter are not eaten by the natives. The meat is very fatty but otherwise the most wholesome. Aug 24-99 Thursday, Camp XXVI. The night was again cold and one pans this morning have ice as ind thick. Immediately after breakfast I go down the little stream from our Camp about half mile to study the novel of the beavers. These beavers come to be daming the streams once and more down streams to find just gnawing aspen trees which seem to be their chief food. They cut down the trees from an inch to three to 8 inches in diameter. They are gnawed about 18 from the ground on all sides of the trunk and the trees fall in any