The Masama's Outgoing at Mount Rainier [pp. 114-123]

CAMP MAZAMA
night, but the locality provide
better. A cold wind sprang up
we reached the camp and drove
to bed before six o'clock. It
then went down as suddenly as
it had risen, leaving the atmosphere surprisingly warm. The
night that we had expected to
spend in shivering and praying
for morning, was spent in sleep.
The temperature never fell below twenty-seven degrees, and
scarcely a breath -of air was
astir throughout the night.
At half past five Tuesday
morning, after a cold breakfast
and a hasty rearrangment of
packs, we were again on our
way up and over the rocks.
Quite a number of our party expected to spend the night on
the summnit. They carried their
sleeping bags of course. Others
carried various scientific in
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struments, or extra articles of clothing,
and so every man in the party was well
loaded. About three hundred yards firom
ADDER'S TONGUE, A LILY OF THE GENI,S ERYTHRONIUM, AND HEATHER