PERILS THAT MUST BE ENDURED 303 



Bear Lake, and then suddenly turned and swept down 

 the river with a furious clatter and roar. 



Having seen it coming, I prepared by pulling a 

 rubber blanket over me, and weighting it down with 

 the rifle. The storm was perhaps fifteen minutes in 

 passing and left in its wake on the ground over an 

 inch of hailstones. For lunch, cold boiled rice brought 

 along in a tin pail and plenty of big blueberries satisfied 

 my hunger. 



The day wore on, and when the wind commenced 

 to blow in gusts I reluctantly turned my steps once 

 more toward the cabin, but before it was reached 

 another rain and hail storm deluged the land. 



Wednesday morning dawned bright and clear, and 

 once more we were off to the land of blueberries and 

 bear meat. Before getting to the carcass we discovered 

 with great joy that during the night a grizzly bear had 

 been there ; that it had removed the carcass to a 

 place where it had covered or cached it with soft 

 earth and leaves. Indeed we had probably scared it 

 away as the carcass was left but partly covered. 



We were to start out over the trail on the following 

 morning, Thursday. It seemed best, therefore, for 

 Kibbee to go down the river bench until he could 

 corral three horses to take us out to Barkerville, and 

 for me to lie concealed near the carcass until his return. 

 It may be easily imagined that I was all eyes for a 

 moving object of any kind. 



