260 THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY LAND. 



we did not fail amply to reward him for the intrepidity 

 he had displayed. Few men would have dared to 

 plunge into such a boiling torrent, and as we looked 

 at the huge rolling waves after it was over, we could 

 hardly believe it possible that the thing had in reality 

 occurred. 



Having unpacked Bucephalus, and spread all the 

 soaked baggage out to dry in the sun, we started for- 

 ward again to learn the fate of the other horse Gis- 

 quakarn, who had obstinately pursued the middle 

 course — in this case certainly not the safest. After 

 another mile's run, we descried him under the opposite 

 l)ank, where it was too abrupt to climb, his head 

 buried in the bushes which fringed the shore, and 

 hardly able to stand against the rush of water. It 

 seemed madness to attempt to cross the stream on a 

 raft in its present swollen state, and we were reluc- 

 tantly compelled to abandon him to his fate for the 

 present. The Iroquois started immediately for Tete 

 Jaune Cache, which he calculated could not be more 

 than seven or eight miles distant, in order to obtain 

 the assistance of the Shushwaps there, who possessed 

 canoes in which the river might be crossed. The rest 

 of us returned to camp with our injured property, and 

 employed ourselves in investigating the extent of our 

 losses. Early the next morning the Iroquois returned 

 with two young Shushwaps, who crossed the river, 

 and proceeded to the place where the horse had 

 been last seen. From the marks on the bank it was 

 evident that the animal had made frantic but futile 

 endeavours to cHmb the bank, but had at last roUed 



