126 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



left some flour and other provisions behind in 

 order to lighten the packs. 



Improvidence seems to characterize these 

 men of the west. So long as provisions are 

 plentiful there is no thought of the future. 



Three spoonfuls of sugar will be put in a cup 

 of tea and a two-pound tin of jam will dis- 

 appear at a meal treated as if it were stewed 

 fruit, but the future is forgotten. 



To-day the poor dogs had no food at all. 

 We ourselves did not fare brilliantly, but a 

 short march on the morrow should bring us 

 to the Nimquish Lake. We might indeed with 

 an effort have made it in the day. 



September 16th. A two hours' march took 

 us to the lake and our last meal was taken on 

 its shores. It was neither luxurious nor plenti- 

 ful a few crusts of yesterday's bread fried in 

 some bacon fat which remained on the pan, 

 and a cup of weak tea, for tea too had run out. 



I hunted for and found a portion of the skin 

 of the deer I had shot on the first day in and 

 which I had thrown into the lake. 



" Dick " and " Nigger " devoured it raven- 

 ously. Poor doggies, they had been two days 

 without a meal. More faithful or longsuffering 

 companions a man never had. They seemed to 

 understand we could not give them what we 

 had not, and while they looked at us eating 



