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two long cold years of isolation, a fri end? was really near in the flesh that my ey es? would be blessed that very day with
lig ht? from a familiar face, I started from the house in pursuit. I soon found Gen' Al vord? one of the guides who informed
me that Pr of'? Butler illegible P Jones had started for the top mount Broderick. I waylaid him at a illegible in the trail
where he had to pass, near the Nevada rapids. I asked anxiously for Henry but was told that he was not in the? valley. Towards
evening he came to light am id? the rocks half wet? groping his way among broken granite bushes, sleeves rolled up res illegible
open-hat dangling behind his back etc, on see ing? me approach he sat down to wipe the per prer? ation from his brow neck,
enquired the way down the rapids. I showed him the pa illegible which was marked with little piles of rock but he did not
recognize me. When I was? directly in front of him asked him if he did not know me. He said he thought not but soon changed
his mind. He was weary with his day of hard climbing but was very cheerful nevertheless, on the way to the? hotel gleaned
delightful handfuls for? me from the Poets, remarked upon the surpassing glories of Yo Semite I was sorry to learn that he
was? going to leave the Valley in the morning in scandalous haste urged by that man y illegible was who is governed like a
machine by military? c illegible . When he left ?