198 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



The total of the bill was $114. In addition to this, 

 we, of course, had to pay for the packhorses, five of 

 them, to pack the stuff on, which cost twenty dollars 

 more. 



Our licenses cost $100 each, and were the first that 

 had been sold at this government office this season, 

 other people having purchased their licenses before 

 arriving here. The provincial and the dominion 

 officials, as well as the leading business men, treated 

 us with great courtesy and kindness. One of the men 

 we met a Mr. Bailey, had been educated in the Penn 

 Charter School, Philadelphia. He was formerly em- 

 ployed as a civil engineer on the Pennsylvania Kailroad, 

 but he prefers the life out here to that in the Quaker 

 City. We were to have left Barkerville early Friday 

 morning, but the five cayuse horses which were to 

 have taken us to Bear Lake strayed away during the 

 night and it took some hours to gather them up once 

 more. 



We had engaged five Siwash Indians with their five 

 ponies to " pack " our outfit. But these men took their 

 own time for starting, and, although they promised 

 much, they put off their departure until the next day. 

 So we ourselves left Barkerville at 1 P. M. over the 

 famous Bear Kiver trail. The first eight miles were 

 over a fairly good road. 



And this we did at a brisk trot. After that it was a 

 ride over a trail from two feet to two feet six wide, up 



