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Title: Climbs & exploration in the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stutfield, Hugh Edward Millington, 1858-1929. (from old catalog) Collie, Norman, 1859-1942, joint author
Subjects: Rocky mountains Mountaineering
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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but we found everythingjust as we had left it. Probably no one hadpassed that way during our absence. In anycase, provisions are very rarely stolen fromcaches, as the enormity of the offence is gener-ally recognised. In former days the penaltywas death; and even now it is very severe. That evening we feasted on bacon, driedapricots, and other deMcacies that we had beentalking about for some time past. In civihsedcountries it is not the custom to spend a largeportion of the day thinking and often talkingabout food. But, given an individual with agood healthy appetite, and an insufficient supplyof edible material to satisfy that appetite, aninteresting exhibition will ensue of how thebody can tyrannise over the mind. A naturalresult followed after we had had our first good square meal: we did not move thecamp for two days. By way of passing thetime, and to supply the larder, the next after-noon we prowled singly through the woods after fool-hen. The total bag amounted to five brace. 136
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FORESTS OF BEAR CREEK The woods surrounding the camping-groundat Bear Creek are exceptionally fine — for theeastern side of the Rockies—and some of thetrees are of great height. One wants to bealone to fully appreciate the mystery and theutter sohtude of these great forests. It is lessagreeable, doubtless, to be by oneself; but theimpressions created are deeper and more en-during. It is then that is borne in upon youthe silence and the immensity of an Africandesert, the utter lonehness of the Canadian back-woods, or the solemnity of the great mountainpeaks. In the Rockies the scarcity of bird andanimal life serves to intensify the sense of soh-tude ; and the traveller may walk for hourswithout hearing a sound except the roar of somedistant avalanche or torrent, the soughing of thewind in the tall pines, and the creaking of theirgigantic limbs. Imagination, too, plays strangepranks at times, as the stray sunbeams dance onthe green moss, and the play of hght and shadecaused by the s

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