CHAPTER III. 



JOURNEY RESUMED THE FOREST DUCKS EAGLES OSPREYS NARROW ESCAPE 

 FROM INDIANS DEATH OF THE SAVAGES MR, AND MISS FRAZER JAKE AND 

 THE YOUNG LADY A HALT PIERRE " A GONE COON" MISS FRAZER*S SANG 

 FROID OLD JAKE'S INNUENDOS PIERRE LEAVES THE CANOE A FOREST 

 SCENE A BEAR PIERRE'S CONTEST WITH THE BEAR NIGHT IN THE FOREST 

 WOLVES AND CARIBOO PIERRE REJOINS HIS COMRADES. 



OUK hunters now prepared to continue their journey. 

 The canoe was carried to the river and launched ; 

 Gaultier stepped in, and held on by a branch, while 

 Pierre and Jake busied themselves in placing on board 

 the different articles of their outfit. This accomplished, 

 these also took their places ; and Gaultier releasing his 

 hold on the branch, the light boat, obedient to the dip 

 of the paddles, shot out into the stream. 



The freshet of the previous night had not yet run 

 itself out, and the river still rushed swiftly down the 

 glen, bounding in long, smooth undulations where the 

 water was deep over hidden rocks, and boiling in foam- 

 crested surges round boulders which projected here and 

 there above the surface. The navigation was therefore 

 difficult, and in not a few spots even dangerous. A 

 slight graze against the jagged edges of some of the 

 boulders which strewed the bed of the stream would 



