NATIVE ANGLERS 
ting, and a good, cheery camp-fire will 
make you forget the troubles and vexa- 
tions of the day’s travel. 
If you are traveling across country you 
will have to melt snow to supply camp 
with water. If you are traveling along 
a stream, and there is no open water near, 
then bring in a Jarge block of ice; it is far 
ahead of snow. You can now prepare sup- 
per for yourself and dogs. Do not give 
them frozen food. If their food is ready 
cooked, or consists of meat or fish, thaw 
it in front of the fire. When supper is 
ready, if you have companions, start a 
conversation and make yourself agreeable; 
it costs nothing to do so, and there has 
been no time for talk all day. If the 
weather promises snow, put up a fly; if 
not, shape up the fire, wrap up in your 
blankets, and you will soon be asleep. 
Never forget to be cheerful. If you have 
not a cheerful disposition do not try to 
travel in the North, for you are doomed to 
trouble and failure. Do not allow yourself 
to dread the cold or imagine you are go- 
ing to starve. Plan your trips in a busi- 
ness-like manner, make your preparations 
in the same self-reliant way, and go with a 
determination to execute your plans. I 
would rather undertake 2 men’s work than 
have a helper who could not do his share 
and “look pleasant.” 
- The young man who engaged himself to 
me at Fort Wrangle last summer, repre- 
senting that he had traveled some in the 
North and felt capable of enjoying an ex- 
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OM 4803, IOVAURIDE 
fell by 
tended trip, the wayside in 
months. 
When I leave the. Lower Post I will 
pass from the West to the East, through 
the Rocky mountain range. In so doing 
I will leave to the South of me (so far ag 
investigations prove) the Owls Stoni or 
black sheep ~ot the native, for the 
Ovis Dalli, or white sheep of the North. 
I will leave Chinook for Slavey, sleighs 
7 
for toboggans, and the country of the 
free-trader for that of the Hudson’s 
Bay Co. 
Onemyaeamival wbelow: lel, Gate ain 
March I will find in camp there a man and 
his son. Both are experienced in boat- 
building, and they will help me to build 
my boat and float it to Fort Simpson. f 
expect to make 3 hunts for big game be- 
tween here and Fort Simpson. I look 
forward with pleasure to a trip down the 
Mackenzie. 
Mr. Fred Camsell, one of the young 
men who traveled with me in January, has 
always lived on the Mackenzie, and from 
him I learned much of the country and its 
people. 
her indians ot; the: Dease ‘and Liard 
river countries are nomadic, nowhere pos- 
sessing a semblance of a village, and they 
live almost exclusively on game and fish. 
They come to the trading posts but once 
a year, remaining possibly 2 weeks. Then 
the trader and his family are almost alone 
for another 11 months. Most of these 
people as far East as the Rocky moun- 
