﻿1848. FOKMATION OF RIVEIl's BANK. 205 



CHAP. VII. 



PEREGSINE FALCON.— THE RAPID. RAMPARTS. HARE INDIANS. 



FORT GOOD HOPE. HARES. KUTCHIN. THEIR CONTESTS 



WITH THE ESKIMOS. A FATAL DANCE. A HARE INDIAN 



DEVOURED BY A BROWN BEAR. VEGETATION. NARROWS. 



RICHARDSON CHAIN OF HILLS. — FORT SEPARATION, — CACHE 



OF PEMICAN AND MEMORANDUM. ALLUVIAL DELTA. YUKON 



RIVER. REIN-DEER HILLS. M'GILLIVRAY ISLAND. HARRI- 

 SON ISLAND. TERiHNATION OF THE FOREST. SACRED 



ISLAND. — Richard's island. — point encounter. 



We continued to descend the river until 7 in 

 the evening, when we encamped for the night, as I 

 did not consider it to be safe to drift here, there not 

 being one person in the boats who had ever been 

 in this river before, but myself, and I could not 

 trust to my recollections of the best channels after 

 the lapse of so many years since my former visit. 



About twelve or fourteen miles below the influx 

 of Great Bear River, the channel of the Mackenzie 

 approaches the spur on its eastern bank, and flows 

 parallel to it for some distance. At the spot 

 where we encamped the beach was formed of dis- 

 placed bituminous shale with imbedded granite 

 boulders, both evidently derived from the ruined 

 bank, a section of which showed la3^ers of gravel 

 consisting of rolled pieces of shale and a few lime- 



