242 RECENT HUNTING TRIPS. 



quite filled the river from side to side, and we 

 could do nothing but travel with the pack until 

 we got to broader reaches and were able to find 

 open channels again amongst the floes. 



On the morning of October 4th a piece of 

 hard ice knocked a hole in my canoe near the 

 bow, and we had to go ashore and plug it up. 

 The same evening we reached the mouth of 

 Kalzas River, and in the large cabin there 

 found that a French Canadian, named Tebel, 

 had established himself and meant to pass the 

 Avinter trapping. We here got an old fruit tin, 

 and with this and a small packet of copper 

 nails which I had brought with me from Dawson, 

 Louis patched up my injured canoe most suc- 

 cessfully. 



We spent the night in the cabin with Lebel, 

 who insisted upon opening a tin of butter for 

 our benefit, though we were just getting back 

 to civilization, and he was about to spend a 

 long dreary winter in the wilds. However, we 

 were able to give him a good supply of fresh 

 meat, and all the flour and bacon and moose fat 

 we did not require to take us into Selkirk. 



