268 MULE-HUNTING EXPEDITION. 



CHAPTER XL 



CROSSING THE KLAMATH RIVER - HOW TO SWIM MULES - 

 SIS-KY-OUE INDIANS EMIGRANT FORD - TROUT BALING - A 

 BEAVER TOWN - BREEDING-GROUNDS OF THE PELICANS AND 

 VARIOUS WATER-BIRDS PURSUED BY KLAMATH INDIANS - 

 INTERVIEW WITH CHIEF - THE DESERT PRONG-HORNED ANTE- 

 LOPES - ACORNS AND WOODPECKERS - YELLOW-HEADED BLACK- 

 BIRDS - SNAKE SCOUT - AKRIVAL AT CAMP OF COMMISSION - 

 END OF JOURNAL. 



\ltli. Leave this sandy waste, cross over 

 a low divide, and descend into a narrow gulley, 

 named Bogus Hollow. Creep along between high 

 craggy peaks for ten miles to reach the Klamath 

 river, a wide, rapid stream that I have to cross, 

 but how, just now is apuzzler. The banks are high ; 

 not a tree grows along its sides, or near by, where- 

 with to make either canoe or raft. I follow on its 

 course for eight miles ; the river makes a sudden 

 bend, and in the angle on the opposite side I can 

 see the charred remains of a log-shanty, amidst a 

 clump of trees, one of which has been felled so as 

 to fall across the river, and forms a rude foot- 



