CHAPTER VII. 



.was not compelled to eat with George and 

 Mary, for Mr. Barker had kindly invited 

 me to breakfast with him, and when I 

 : reached his store, at the breakfast hour 

 in the morning, I found a neat inviting- 

 looking table in the room back of the 

 store, loaded with broiled ham, baked 

 ^potatoes, good bread and butter, a pot of 

 Steaming coffee, etc.; all of which we 

 enjoyed intensely. Mr. Barker informed 

 me there was a cluster of hot springs ten miles up 

 the river, at the foot of Harrison Lake, the source of 

 Harrison river, near which a large hotel had lately 

 been built. Upon inquiry as to a means of getting 

 up there, I learned that he had employed a couple 

 of Indians to take some freight up that morning in 

 a canoe, and that I could probably secure a passage 

 with them. As Harrison Lake, or rather the mount- 

 ains surrounding it, were the hunting-grounds 

 which Douglass Bill had selected, and as we would 

 have to pass these hot springs en route, I decided 

 to go there and wait for him. I therefore arranged 

 with Barker to send him up to the springs, when he 

 should call for me at the store, and took passage 

 in the freight canoe. 



The Harrison river is a large stream that cuts its 

 way through high, rugged mountains, and the water 



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