CHAPTER XII 
Return to Canada—Okanagan—Porcupine—Wild Horses— 
Siwash Indians—Potlach dance—A Trip to Alaska—Soapy 
Smith. 
Who hath seen the beaver busied? Who hath seen the black-tail 
mating ? 
Who hath lain alone to hear the wild-goose cry ? 
Who hath worked the chosen water where the ouananiche is waiting, 
Or the sea-trout’s jumping—crazy for the fly ? 
Rupyarp Kip.ine. 
WENT home to England after my first 
tarpon trip, but returned to Canada the 
following spring, bent on two things—one 
to visit Lake St. John to fish for ouananiche, 
the land-locked salmon, and the other to bag a 
musk ox. 
On my arrival I went to see the officials of 
the Hudson Bay Company, whose help I re- 
quired in order to get beyond the Peace River, 
but, owing to the Klondike rush, they could 
not promise me any assistance, and I was 
reluctantly obliged to abandon the expedition. 
I was too early in the year for ouananiche, so 
decided to go into the Okanagan country, where 
I was given to understand I could get some good 
shooting at mule-deer, white-tailed deer, and 
Rocky Mountain sheep. Some people have a 
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