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8 tributary naming this Cascade camp. The next morning while Muir I explored the Tributary, Dr Kellogg Ruth made a log illegible
across and we went on until nightfall to find just at dark an universe? log felled by a natural process. It was a Librocedrus
tree that carried us safely over the main trunk of the river. It took another day of hard climbing to put us into underlined:
the Cascades in the heart of the Canon. The admission fee here was shoes, stockings, glasses all superfluous freight of clothing.
Bare footed handed we stuck to the glacier polished rocks pulled ourselves up to the broad plane of a rock wall, that said
thus far shalt thou go; but did not say - how far we should underlined stick on . 9 As we had moved from camp to camp
we had left clothing provisions we thought, well protected, for our return. We took only a days provisions into the Cascades.
consequently when Muir fell sick there, we had to lay over a day, we got hungry hungrier, longed to get back to our base of
supplies. Because they were an hungered, with butter gone no sugar. I only cracked wheat poor coffee, the gentleman ate heartily
of plums stewed in their own juice, with a trifle of Tuolumne water for seasoning. Not many hours after my three companions
behaved as if each had swallowed a glacier I ordered for deleted: my dear John Muir . a wet blanket pack, for he was in a
high fever. deleted: (bring my shawl out in 06388