CHAPTER XIX. 
CAPTURED BY BROWN BEARS. 
T must be confessed that even Mr. Button and 
the lieutenant looked forward with considerable 
anxiety to the next object, in the line of their 
route, which the old medicine-man had thought worthy of 
noting down on his map. If Solomon had any misgivings, 
he kept them to himself. 
Peescliee admitted that he had no idea of the meaning 
of the design, though it seemed intended to indicate some 
animal. From the fact that it had no tail, he was in- 
clined to think it represented a bear ; but that was a mere 
guess. 
After leaving the stream which Solomon bridged so 
neatly, they found that the trail led up the course of one 
of the numerous little streams that threaded the hillsides. 
Mr. Dutton paused from time to time to adjust their route 
by the compass ; but there was now not much danger of 
missing the path, which had clearly been traversed many 
times since it was first made. The lieutenant was of the 
opinion that its origin was due to bears, whose tracks 
were plain enough beside every muddy pool they passed. 
Peeschee, on the other hand, maintained that the trail 
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