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appeared more loathsome than than the last. The largest camp was evidently the sleeping quarters, low bunks in tiers of three lining the sides - dirty hovels now, and probably at the time of occupation - filled with ants, flies, and animals of a lower order. The eating building was even worse. Here masses of dried-up meat were decaying - covered with flies - and massive bones were strewn all over the floor - or rather all over the damp, musty ground. You could picture ravenous men sitting on their haunches in this cabin, gnawing away on the bones of the cattle, brought there on the hoof and slaughtered on the spot, their carcasses left to moulder amoung the cabins. A flock of vultures picking on theb bones of a dead man was all that was lacking to make the picture complete, nor would we have been greatly surprised to have had this picture added.

After a considerable search we fin[[strikethrough]]n[[\strikethrough]]ally selected a small cabin, about seven feet square with the roof two-thirds off. It was this latter feature that led us to choose this as our sleeping place, the Adirondack air, having had sufficient opportunity to permeate the cabin, had driven away the foul stenches that filled the other places. This building had evidently been the quarters of some animals-possibly pigs. There was a wooden box that had probably

[[image-photograph of an old log cabin -- Caption reads [[underline]] Our Sleeping-Place [[\underline]] ]]

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