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pressed witli the Difficulties which heset him, commences the study of 

 Paley — Pembina River — The Coal-bed — Game — Curious Habit of the 

 Willow Grouse — Mr. O'B. en route — Changes wrought by Beaver — The 

 Assiniboine's Adventure with the Grisly Bears — Mr. O'B. prepares to sell 

 his Life dearly — Hunt for the Bears — Mr. O'B. Protects the Camp — The 

 Bull-dogs— The Path through the Pine Forest— The Elbow of the McLeod 

 — Baptiste becomes Discontented — Trout Fishing — Moose Hunting — 

 Baptiste Deserts — Council — Resolve to Proceed — We lose the Trail — 

 The Forest on Fire — Hot Quarters — Working for Life — Escape — Strike 

 the Athabasca River — First View of the Rocky Mountains — Mr. O'B. 

 spends a Restless Night — Over the Mountain — Magnificent Scenery — 

 Jasper House — Wild Flowers — Hunting the "MoutonGris" and the 

 " Mouton Blanc " 203 



CHAPTER XIIL 



Making a Raft — Mr. O'B. at Hard Labour — He admires our ** Youthful 

 Ardour" — News of Mr. Macaulay — A Visitor — Mr. O'B, Fords a 

 River — Wait for Mr, Macaulay — The Shushwaps of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains — Winter Famine at Jasper House — The Wolverine — The Miners 

 before us — Start again — Cross the Athabasca — The Priest's Rock — 

 Site of the Old Fort, " Henry's House "—The Valley of the Myette— 

 Fording Rapids — Mr. O'B. on Horseback agaiff — Swimming the 

 Myette — Cross it for the Last Time — The Height of Land — The 

 Streams run Westward — Buffalo-dung Lake — Strike the Eraser River — 

 A Day's Wading — Mr. O'B.'s Hair-breadth Escapes — Moose Lake — 

 Rockingham Falls — More Travelling through Water — Mr. O'B. be- 

 comes disgusted with his Horse — Change in Vegetation — Mahomet's 

 Bridge — Change in the Rocks — Fork of the Eraser, . or original Tete 

 Jaune Cache — Magnificent Scenery — Robson's Peak — Flood and Forest 

 — Horses carried down the Eraser — The Pursuit — Intrepidity of The 

 Assiniboine — He rescues Bucephalus — Loss of Gisquakarn — Mr. O'B.'s 

 Reflections and Regrets— Sans Tea and Tobacco — The Extent of our 

 Losses — Mr. O'B. and Mrs. Assiniboine — Arrive at The Cache . . 236 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Tete Jaune Cache — Nature of the Country — Wonderful View — West of the 

 Rocky Mountains — Rocky Mountains still — The *' Poire," or Service 

 Berry — The Shushwaps of The Cache— ^The Three Miners — Gain but 

 little Information about the Road — The Iroquois return to Jasper 

 House — Loss of Mr. O'B.'s Horse — Leave The Cache — The Watersheds 

 — Canoe River — Perilous Adventure with a Raft — Milton and the 

 Woman — Extraordinary Behaviour of Mr. O'B, — The Rescue — The 

 Watershed of the Thompson — Changes by Beaver — Mount Milton — 

 Enormous Timber — Cross the River — Fork of the North Thompson — 

 A Dilemma — No Road to be Found — Cross the North-west Branch — 

 Mr. O'B.'s Presentiment of Evil — Lose the Trail again — Which Way 

 shall we Turn ? — Resolve to try and reach Karaloops — A Natural 



