CHAPTEE XIY. 



Tete Jaune Cache — Nature of the Country — "Wonderful Yiew — West 

 of the E,ocky 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 Iro- 

 quois returns 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 presenti- 

 ment of Evil — Lose the Trail again — Which Way shall we Turn ? 

 Resolve to try and reach Kamloops — A Natural Bridge — We 

 become Beasts of Burden — Mr. O'B. objects, but is overruled by 

 the Assiniboine — " A hard Road to Travel" — Miseries of driving 

 Pack-horses — An Unwelcome Discovery — The Trail Ends — 

 Lost in the Forest — Our Disheartening Condition — Council of 

 War — Explorations of The Assiniboine, and his Report — A Feast 

 on Bear's Meat — How we had a Smoke, and were encouraged by 

 The Assiniboine. 



We reached Tete Jaune Caclie on the 17th of July, 

 and on the morning of the 18th were ferried across 

 the Fraser by the Indians. The water roUed over the 

 bed of boulders at a great pace, swelling into large 

 waves, on which the hght dug-out of the Shushwaps 

 tossed like a nutshell. Mr. O'B., at our suggestion, 

 lay on his back at full length at the bottom of the 

 canoe, for we were really afraid he might upset such a 



