CHAPTER XIII. 



Making a Eaffc — Mr. 0"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 Eocky 

 ]\[ountains — Winter Famine at Jasper House — The Wolverine— 

 The Miners before us — Start again — Cross the Athabasca — The 

 Priest's Eock— Site of the Old Fort, "Henry's House "—The 

 Valley of the Myette — Fording Eapids — Mr. O'B. on Horseback 

 again — Swimming the Myette — Cross it for the Last Time — The 

 Height of Land — The Streams run Westward — Buffalo-dung Lake 

 ^Strike the Fraser Eiver — A Day's Wading — Mr. O'B.'s Hair- 

 breadth Escapes — Moose Lake — Eockingham Falls — More Tra- 

 velling through Water — Mr. O'B. becomes disgusted with his 

 Horse — Change in Vegetation — Mahomet's Bridge — Change in 

 the Eocks — Fork of the Fraser, or original Tete Jaune Cache — 

 Magnificent Scenery — Eobson'sPeak — Flood and Forest — Horses 

 carried down the Fraser— The Pursuit — Litrepidity of the Assini- 

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

 Eeflections and Eegrets — Sans Tea and Tobacco — Tlie Extent 

 of our Losses — Mr. O'B. and Mrs. Assiniboine — Arrive at the 

 Cache. 



We arrived opposite Jasper House on the 29tli of 

 June. The Fort was evidently without inhabitants, 

 but as the trail appeared to lead there only, we pur- 

 posed to cross the river at this point, and set to work 

 to cut timber for a raft. On the 30th we laboured 

 hard with our two small axes, felling the dry pine- 

 trees, while Mr. O'B. devoted himself to the study of 

 Paley, over a pipe. It was late in the afternoon before 

 sufficient timber was cut down, and it had then to be 

 carried several hundred yards to the river's edge. 



