CHAPTER IX. 
FROM SYNIAKWATEEN TO THE PACK RIVER—FROM PACK RIVER 
TO THE KOOTANIE—THE TOBACCO PLAINS—HUDSON’S BAY 
COMPANY’S TRADING-POST—THE KOOTANIE INDIANS—A KOO- 
TANIE CANOE—THE GALTON RANGE AND FLATHEAD RIVER— 
THE MOOSE DEER—WAPITI OR OREGON ELK—CARIBOU— 
VIRGINIAN DEER—WHITE-TAILED DEER—BLACK-TAILED DEER 
—MULE DEER—THE ASCENT OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS—-CAMP 
IN THE GLEN—YELLOW-HAIRED PORCUPINE—SAY’S STRIPED 
SQUIRREL—PINUS CONTORTA— ROCK PTARMIGAN—-THE MOUNTAIN 
GOAT——THE BIGHORN AND ROCK-WHISTLER. 
Leavine Syniakwateen, the trail runs through 
twenty-five miles of dark, gloomy, grassless 
forest, until reaching the Pack river, a small 
stream, except in the flood-time: from this river 
to the “Kootanie, the trees are less thickly 
clustered. 
In the Kootanie valley there is an abundance of 
grass; we crossed the river at its south-eastern 
bend, to reach the Tobacco plains, a gravelly waste, 
the grass on it at this time (July) completely 
dried into hay by the sun. A small trading-post 
of the Hudson’s Bay Company stands near the 
crossing, occupied by one trader, who obtains the 
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