234 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



On the afternoon of September 2Gtli we 

 reached the forks of the ]\Iacmillan, and here 

 we met two trappers, Messrs. Barr and Crosby, 

 on their way up to a cabin we had seen close 

 to where we had left onr canoes, before going 

 into the monntains to hunt. This cabin they 

 had bnilt the previous year, and they intended 

 to spend the winter in it whilst engaged in 

 trapping martens and beavers. During that 

 time they and two other trappers, Messrs. 

 Riddell and Cameron, would be the onlv human 

 beings in all the vast coimtry drained by the 

 two branches of the Macmillan River, for there 

 are no Indians in any part of this territory. 



We heard from the trappers that our Canadian 

 friends had gone down the river from the South 

 Fork, on their way to Dawson on the 23rd, and 

 that Messrs. Osgood and Rungius were waiting 

 for us in an old cabin on the main stream of the 

 Macmillan, near Plateau Mountain. We subse- 

 quently learned that the Canadian party had 

 come across large herds of caribou in the 

 mountains on the South Fork, and had shot 

 eleven fine bulls, some of them with exception- 



