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awhile, at the same time handing me a big bottle of arnica. I will try and describe Estras Park, so called on account of tlie' man who first settled there, named Estres. It is a kind of xalley Just at the; foot.of Long's Peak, and is surrounded on all sides by snow topped peaks, so that it is impossible to get out without climbing a mountain, except tit one place where a small creek runs out through a kind of a canon. It is only about four miles long and two miles wide, and is as beautiful a place as you can imagine. The inhabitants consist of Mr.H. and wife and daughter, a Mr. Evans and family, and a trapper called Mountain Jim Mr. H. and Mr. E. are oonsmijpftves .f»Zld are there for their health, so is Mountain Jim, although in the eating ability don’t show bis lungs to be affected in the least The other inhabitants are all aboriginees, and consist of deer-, bears, mountain lions, ** j or as you call tbem, panther?, wildcats, ’e j mountain sheep, skunks, e, All the in-:r' {.habitants jjeeni to bo on very friendlv terms, especially the aboriginees and the settlers. In fact they arc too familiar to he agreeable sometimes, as they always make their calls after dark. I -found out after I got there that I had heard mountain lions'nearer than I should have liked, the night previous,had I known what they were, and much nearer than .would have been conducive to my health and happiness if it had not been for a good lire. However I slept in blissful ignorance of anything except that I was tired. IVell, to return to the thread of m3' narrative, as storj*-writers fay. After taking a bath and anointing my sore extremities, I went out of doors, and there under the trees we talked over the good times passed in Lawrence. About half past ten MrTand Mrs. H. and E. and myself, went down to the creek to get our dinner, and in an half hour had caught a basket full cf nice spotted r; trout, your young hopeful winning the lau-3 {rels by catching six more fish than anybody ' - else. Mr. H. thinks that I have fished bc-1; fore. This fish, venison, and mountain ; sheep are all the meat they get. Mountain kj Jim keeps .them in 'venison and mutton.Vj j They have quite a comfortable house for 1 that region, they have four rooms, two upstairs and two down. It is made of logs chinked in with mud, of course, and would look pretty rough in Lawrence, or Sag Har-j bor, but- it is a palace out there. Most of i the houses have only one room ami no wiu-j dows, the roof is made of small logs with | dirt thrown over it, the chimney is built on i the ouiskle, and is simply stouc-s piled up ' in a heap about six feet high. I have I picture of the log house, or the negative of : it, and when I got some printed will send j yon one. Some IT. S. Surveyors were up ; there taking views of the country and lrind-j ly took a negative. The next day was like unto the aforesaid, in the morning and in ; the afternoon Em. and I took a ride up Long j Peak, to snow; their house is shout- four I miles from the foot of the Peal-: and about ; six from snow. IVe went up as far as. we dared and got off and snow-balled in J illy'. ‘How is that for high.’ The snow is a hundred feet deep in some places and is so all the year round. It all looks level and so a person tc*be careful, as it is vpiy dangerous to go into it anyhow, and a fellow never can tell when lie may step off some rock and sink into ‘oblivion’ (I mean out j of sight) . Well, we got lost coining homoj ancl in wandering about to find the light j way, I tore a big hole in my pants. It j caught on a snag some lion and without any I warning /;;.it iore, necessitating me to goi to bod, when we «ot home aad let Airs. IX.; sew it up. W’e had some fun that evening talking over old times. It was all I could do to getaway the next morning. Em. rode ; about five miles down with mo and X don t i believe I ever saw so lonesome a girl. She ; and her mother banished as they are from j the society they have been used io all tlieirj lives, to live ~aj out iliore fifl-.v miles from'nowhere, it is awful. I reached LongmontSOpu
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Sag Harbor Corrector
Sag Harbor, New York, US
Sat, Aug 02, 1873
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