LETTER XIII. 143 



LETTER XIII. 



Hope, B.C. 

 DEAR PAT, 



The Rocky Mountain goats of the 

 potato ranch afforded me my last day's sport 

 in the Similkameen country, for though I tried 

 exceedingly hard to secure a guide to the haunts 

 of those grizzlies who were reputed to dwell on 

 ' the summit,' I failed in my endeavour, partly 

 because most of the best men were away ' pack- 

 ing ' or ' trapping,' and partly because all the 

 native hunters of the district were suffering from 

 the effects of a scare caused by the death of a 

 Hope Indian, killed outright by one of these 

 brutes, and the death of another Indian near 

 Penticton, who had been disembowelled and left 

 by a bear which he had found feeding upon the 

 carcass of a deer shot in the early morning. The 

 poor fellow lingered for three or four days, but 

 succumbed eventually to his wounds, and the 

 grizzly, though badly wounded, managed to escape 



