156 ROUTE TO THE SUMMIT CAMP. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ROUTE TO THE SUMMIT CAMP SPOKAN PLAINS FEARFUL DE- 

 STRUCTION OF HORSES SYNIAKWATEEN (OR 'THE CROSSING') 



A BUTTERFLY ASSEMBLAGE THE FOX-SPARROW GOATSUCKERS 



THE OSPRET REDSTART LOUISIANA TANAGER DUSKY 



GROUSE FRANKLIN'S GROUSE RUFFED GROUSE HARRIS'S 



WOODPECKER GAIRDNER'S WOODPECKER WHITE-HEADED 



WOODPECKER THREE-TOED WOODPECKER LOG-COCK LEWIS'S 



WOODPECKER A NEW CICADA (CICADA OCCIDENTALIS). 



THE routes travelled by our various working- 

 parties in order to reach the Summit Camp- 

 situated on the Rocky Mountains, and the termi- 

 nation of the half of the Boundary Line we were 

 commissioned to mark (the other half, east of 

 the Rocky Mountains, the terminal point of which 

 is at the Lake of the Woods, still remains un- 

 marked) ran in a southerly direction. This 

 deviation from a more direct course was necessi- 

 tated in consequence of impassable barriers of 

 mountains, so closely piled and wooded, that the 

 valleys between them were little else than rocky 

 gorges, devoid of grass or other food for packed 

 animals. Following the Colville valley for some 

 distance, and thence through a sparsely-wooded 



