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 ? 



RUDYARD KIPLING. 



I 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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