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signs of the presence of beavers became fre- 

 quent, and I came across a good many large 

 Cottonwood trees which they had lately cut 

 down. 



These interesting animals, however, were 

 not nearly so plentiful in 1906 as I had found 

 them in 1904, a great number having been 

 trapped a few months before iny last visit by 

 a band of Indians, who had come over to the 

 upper Macmillan from the Little Sahnon River. 



During the very cold weather which oc- 

 curred in January, 1906 — said to have been 

 the coldest ever recorded in the Yukon — this 

 band of Indians had every dog they possessed 

 frozen to death. 



Besides the considerable number of beavers 

 trapped by the Indians at this time, forty-three 

 were also caught by two white trappers, so 

 that probably more than one hundred were 

 killed in a few weeks in this district, in which, 

 up to that year, they had lived unmolested for 

 a very long time. 



On August 13th we got through the Pell}^ 

 Canyon without any difficulty, and shortly 



