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burning by lighting the grass behind us so that our course was marked by tall smoke columns as the grass burned swiftly up the slope.  At about 3 P.M. when we were at 11000 ft.  We came to a point of the ridge on we which were travelling and found it dropped away too rapidly to permit our animals to descend.  The two indians I had with me as packers & who owned the burrows were now in a state of great dejection & knew that we were lost & would have to climb back up the Mt. again & take one of the trails that I had refused to let them following in the morning.  They had