CHAPTER XIV 



I engage a Guide Kenai Snug Harbour Grizzly Bears 

 Mount Ilamina Sea-otter Bows and Arrows Bidarkis 

 Native Turkish Baths Devout Indians Curious Native 

 Customs. 



He rose to the occasion always with a smile. MARCUS AURELIUS. 



I WAS cooking my lonely meal one morning 

 when a stranger came into camp. I asked 

 him to sit down and have some food with 

 me, and in the course of conversation he said he 

 understood that I wanted to get up-country 

 after sheep and moose, and that as he knew the 

 Kenai Peninsula well, he would accompany me 

 if I wished. 



I was sure that Dawson, whom I had brought 

 with me from Sitka, would not be able to make 

 the trip on account of his frost-bitten feet, so 

 after discussing terms I agreed to take this man. 

 It was thus I met my friend William Hunter 

 and a truer, better companion no man could 

 hope to meet. He was always cheery, always 

 smiling, his only fault being, as I afterwards 

 discovered, that he snored in his sleep. My 

 patent whistle stopped this, however, until by 

 arranging to sleep on his side instead of on his 



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