THE TRIP TO THE HUNTING-GROUNDS 



mountain lake. Shortly before reaching the camping - place 

 we struck the telegraph line connecting Ashcroft with Atlin and 

 the Klondyke, and for the next five days travelled along the 

 broad swath cut through the country by the surv^eyors for this 

 line, to the accompaniment of the continuous humming of 

 messages overhead. The second day from Telegraph Creek 

 we travelled about thirteen miles along the mountainous sides 

 of the south branch of the Stikine, camping in the afternoon in 

 an uninteresting country of second-growth poplars and under- 

 brush. The following day we made about sixteen miles through 

 a country which had been burnt over, and camped at dusk in 

 the deep cafion of Raspberry Creek, with the Iskoot Pass, 

 through which we were to travel next day, forming a gap in the 

 mountains to the south. 



