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the Frazer to the head of navigation and he could 

 not say how much farther. He said that on one 

 occasion a female seal and her young were seen 

 sporting in the water ahead of the steamer, and that 

 when the vessel came within about fifty yards they 

 dove. Nothing more was seen of the puppy, and 

 the captain thought it must have been caught in 

 the wheel and killed, for the mother followed the 

 vessel several miles, whining, looking longingly, 

 pitifully, and beseechingly at the passengers and 

 crew. She would swim around and around the 

 steamer, coming close up, showing no fear for her 

 own safety, whatever, but seeming to beg them to 

 give back her baby. She appeared to have lost sight 

 of it entirely, whatever its fate, and to think it had 

 been captured and taken on board. Her moaning 

 and begging, her intense grief, were pitiable in the 

 extreme, and brought tears to the eyes of stout, 

 brawny men. Finally she seemed completely 

 exhausted with anguish and her exertions and grad- 

 ually sank out of sight. My informant said he 

 hoped never to witness another such sight. 



We arrived at the mouth of Harrison river at six 

 o'clock in the evening. There is a little Indian vil- 

 lage there called by the same name as the river, and 

 Mr. J. Barker keeps a trading post on the reserva- 

 tion, he being the only white man living there. He 

 made me welcome to the best accommodations his 

 bachelor quarters afforded, but said the only sleep- 

 ing-room he had was full, as two friends from down 

 the river were stopping with him for the night, and 

 that I would have to lodge with one of the Indian 

 families. He said there was one Jdoochman (the 



