CHAPTER IX. 



'N the morning I got up early to look for Doug 

 lass Bill, thinking and hoping he might 

 have landed during the night, but no one 

 ife had seen him and there was no strange 

 canoe in the harbor. After breakfast, 

 in order to kill time, I climbed the 

 mountain east of the hotel to a height of 

 ( about a thousand feet. It is heavily 

 timbered, and I found plenty of fresh 

 deer-signs within plain sound of the 

 hammers wielded by the carpenters at work on the 

 hotel, but failed to get a shot. I returned at 

 eleven o'clock, but Bill had not yet shown up. 

 Three other Indians were there, however, with 

 three deer in their canoe, which they had killed 

 on the opposite side of the lake the day before. I 

 now concluded that Mr. Major's confidence in Bill 

 was misplaced ; that he was not going to keep his 

 contract, and was, in short, as treacherous, as unre- 

 liable, and as consummate a liar as other Indians ; 

 so I entered into negotiations with these three Indi- 

 ans to get one or two of them to go with me. But they 

 had planned a trip to New Westminster, to sell their 

 venison, and I could not induce any one of them to 

 go, though I offered big wages, and a premium on 

 each head of game I might kill, besides. They said 

 that if I wished they would take me to their village 



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