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2 settled down are enjoying a fair share of peaceful prosperity - Had you stayed with me I might perhaps have pushed you
a little farther ahead, but Heaven guides us more than we know our fate none of us can forsee. Mine has been to wander in
all wild places as a lover of nature botanist, geologist, naturalist And though I never intended to write or lecture or seek
fame in any way I now write a good deal am well known - Strange is it not that a tramp vegabond without worldly ambition should
meet such a fate. I spent about ten years altogether in the Sierra Nevada Utah, then I wandered through the mountains of Oregon
Washington then began a system of exploration in Alaska, especially with a view to forests, glaciers, mountains etc. In 1881
I went to the Arctic regions about 00215