lo A Hunting Trip 



to guide us to the greatest hunting ground 

 in the district. Presently a hard-eyed, wild 

 Irishman of the shillaly type " who could 

 dance to a whistle and had made two fortunes 

 and spent three " came up. 



On the following morning down the road 

 came the pack-train with the bell-mare in the 

 lead and Tyhee Jimmy, chief of the lillooet 

 Indians, astride and in charge of the outfit, 

 with Napoleon as assistant. Everything was 

 read}^ in a short time for the start, with the five 

 pack-horses loaded to their fullest capacity. 



We left Lillooet and followed the Ridge 

 River, which winds like a serpent down the de- 

 file of the mountain; our course being always 

 higher and higher, until the sun was about 

 disappearing behind the western snow-clad 

 mountain-peaks like a ball of molten metal, 

 warning us that camp must be pitched forth- 

 with. The spot selected was well adapted for 

 the purpose. Nature had provided the ele- 

 ments necessary and essential to camp life., 

 right at the entrance of a natural basin and 

 feeding ground for the horses, and they were 

 soon turned loose to graze for the night. 



