CHAPTER XI. 
THE CHILKOOT PASS. 
UT there is one thing that troubles 
me," said Lieutenant Dick, as the 
party sat around the table, eating 
the last meal at Sitka, " and that 
is that a Copper River Indian, 
with a couple of Ayans, was 
hanging around the settlements 
yesterday, trying to find out 
where we were going, and what 
was the object of our expedition." 
Are those tribes located in the country to which we 
are bound ? " asked Mrs. Button, calmly, helping herself 
to another saucer of preserved salmon-berries. 
" That's just the bother. The Coppers live on the 
outskirts of the very district covered by Peeschee's map. 
Isn't that so, Peeschee ?" 
" The Fox," who was waiting on the party most obsequi- 
ously, corroborated the lieutenant's statement by several 
emphatic shakes of the head. " Ayans fish on Yukon and 
Big Ay an," he added. 
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