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10 deleted: the river wrapped the patient in it) piled on the blankets, put hot stenes to his feel, and ate the cracked
wheat which I was beginning to think anything but illegible , feeling almost sure that I should be obliged to spend some days
there. The next morning all bettered we made our first days return march, - to find at the end all our provisions devoured
by the Bears. They had gobbled up all the dried beef, and chewed my stockings. Many of their packs were on the sand around
us. Muir hurried on to the next camp. to get something for us to Eat, and there also the Bears had been illegible and with
us. We all felt a ching illegible deleted: that the things of the illegible here not good) . We could not stop to get hungrier
11 pushed on with only a little graham flour salt, which the Bears had not gathered. With our appe- tites a little assuaged
with a cheese rind, some unleaved pancakes, we lay down in the stones to rest, before a grand fire. deleted: Feeling very
lonesome without Muir deleted: who had pushed up to the top of the canon to spare anxiety for the boys at whose horse station
we were already due. I dropped asleep. About half past eleven. I heard a voice crying in the Wilderness Bread, meat, underlined:
Sugar , underlined: letters and there stood an Angel of Deliverance laughing over his ragged browses torn shoes, deleted:
which and at our bewildered faces. for it did not seem possible that he could have returned so soon. He brought us good mutton
chops, lump sugar, underlined: tea Then scoundrels running on four legs past 00388