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catch any salmon in the net they carried with 

 them. 



They had seen the moose feeding amongst 

 some willows on the other side of the river, 

 and only a few hundred yards from their cabin, 



and Mr. P had crossed over in their boat 



and shot it at very close range. They very 

 kindly gave ns a fresh supply of fine fat meat. 



The horns of this moose, Mr. P informed 



me, were not at all large, and were still covered 

 with velvet. 



We learned here that an American trapper 

 with his wife and three children were getting 

 ready to pass the winter in a cabin about eight 

 miles further up the river, and that two young 



Englishmen, Messrs. A and L , were 



working some gold-bearing ground on Russell 

 Creek, which runs into the Macmillan River 

 about three miles below the forks. 



I had met Mr. A on Russell Creek in 



1904, and, subsequently, with his wife in 

 England ; and I knew that both of them, as 



well as Mr. and Mrs. L , had passed the 



preceding winter all by themselves in this far 



