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[[underlined]] March 29 [[/underlined]]. 
Slept part of the time but had to build fire about every half hour all night & turn over frequently. Had no trouble in waking up early & getting breakfast & starting as soon as fairly light.
Crust not very hard but held up the snow shoes most of way. Continued S.E. along same old lumber road through ceder swamp and soon struck fresh tracks of 3 wolves.
They had walked on crust & made tracks only as they broke through now & then. As they had come up the road we followed the tracks back down it for several miles till we reached the West Fork of Salmon Trout. Here the wolves had hunted beaver along the creek & dams & ponds but without any success as far as we could see. At this place it began to rain & snow so we decided to stay over till morning to