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Kern Canon.
Spring (Fenced Meadow). Saw Mr.[Hernmann], the ranger also. He has the most extensive range of any of the rangers - from the Kern River Canon to the Marble Fork and Mt. Kaweah to the southward. After lunch, on saddling up, Mr. Black, a typical Englishman of the Lindsay Colony, came into camp with another gentleman. His speech showed him to be English surely. He fishes a great deal, spends the entire summer in the valley of the Kern Canon until he gets word that it is cool in the Valley. He never eats a fish of his
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August. 4, 1900.
catch - always puts them back. Surely a true sportsman! Sport for sport's sake. When opportunity offers he may send a string to his friends in the valley (of the San Joaquin).
Datisca glomerata. near Kern Lake. Left camp at 3:00. After two miles traveling we ran across a couple of young bear. They ran up a Jeffrey Pine - high up amongst the branches. My Winchester repeating shotgun was in the pack on Hot Haste. I hurriedly unpacked, got out buckshot cartridges and
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