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across the river and landed nnder some over- 

 hanging bushes amongst which I could not 

 see it. 



Soon after this we reached the cabin under 

 Plateau Mountain, where J\Ir. Sheldon and I 

 had spent a couple of days in 1904. We found 

 two trappers, both of them Englishmen, for 

 whom we had brought letters from Selkirk, 

 installed in the comfortable log hut (which one 

 of them had helped to build four years pre- 

 viously). This latter gentleman had then only 

 lately taken his discharge from the North-west 

 Mounted Police force, and had been earning his 

 living by trapping ever since. 



His first winter's trapping, he told me, had 

 been very remunerative, as he and one com- 

 panion had caught nearly three hundred martens 

 in prime fur, besides a number of lynxes, mink, 

 and other animals. During the second winter, 

 however, they only trapped some thirty martens 

 on the same ground. During both these seasons 

 he had set his traps low down near the river, 

 but he now intended laying out his lines for 

 traps for the coming winter's work high up 



