210 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



fish, commissioner, who was on a tour of inspection look- 

 ing for a good place for a hatchery for sock-eye salmon. 



Kibbee and I paddled down and found the cache, 

 which contained two fore quarters and a hind quarter of 

 a young moose. After eating lunch, our party was 

 split up, Drs. " W. J." and " W. K" going with a cook 

 and two guides up to Swan Lake to look for moose, 

 while Dr. " W. E." and the writer started for a cabin 

 nine miles further up Bear Kiver, where we hoped to 

 catch sight of a grizzly bear. 



In the other party was a polished, gentlemanly look- 

 ing young man, who was acting as bow poleman for 

 the house-boat. Thinking him to be one of the guides 

 and desiring to become acquainted with them all as 

 soon as possible, I said to him, " What is your name ? " 



In place of telling me his given name, he gave me 

 his family name. 



I then said, " You and I both come from the same 

 country." 



" I came from Norfolk, England," he replied. 



We had some further talk, in which he said he ex- 

 pected to spend the winter on Bear Lake, and that he 

 would go home by way of the Pacific. I advised him 

 to cross the continent and visit Philadelphia, in which 

 case I would be glad to do the honors for him in the 

 Quaker City. He impressed me so much by his modest 

 and unassuming manners, his earnest desire to do all of 

 the work that was to be done, and by his choice Ian- 



