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isolation of our position, two persons who had never been out of a large city before now sleeping on the summit of and amid the eternal snows of the Rocky Mountains. Near morning I got a short doze I woke up at daylight shining and benumbed from the cold I felt an on my body and on pushing the blanket from my heat I perceived that we had a heavy fall of snow during the night Things looked wretched un the extreme our fire was intirely extinguished the wretched mule stood nearly covered with a white blanket of snow so weak and exhausted by hunger and cold that he was not able to shake the snow from his back. I aroused my comrade and we set out on a cruise to look for some dry wood fortunately we found some close by and in a few minutes we had a rousing fire I enjoyed it hugely I was nearly perished even the poor mule came alongside and warmed one side and then turned round the other he seemed to enjoy it as much as we did.