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Transcriber's Notes

Bold text is indicated by equal symbols: =text=.

Italic text is indicated by underscores: _text_.

Moved some illustrations from their original positions to avoid
breaking up paragraphs of text. The List of Half-tone Plates displays
the original page numbers. Some apparently missing plates may have
been edited out of the original version.

Corrected minor punctuation errors.

Page 61: Clomb could be a typo for climb:
  (rush as they might and did, and bounded and clomb,)

Page 123: Changed pased to passed:
  (men had passed near)

Page 155: Changed Bitteroot to Bitterroot:
  (This took place in the Bitterroot Mountains)

Page 157: Added missing exclamation point:
  (I heard the dreaded cry, "Yellow-Jackets!")

Page 165: Changed conspicious to conspicuous:
  (might otherwise make it too conspicuous.)

Page 176: Changed inclinded to inclined:
  (travellers will be inclined to bunch them)

Page 196: Changed go to to:
  (We went quietly to the edge of the timber)

Page 210: Plate XL was not included in the original book.
  (The picture, such as it is, I give as Plate XL, c.)

Page 213: Manoeuvring had an oe ligature in the original book:
  (it stood, and there was some pretty manoeuvring,)