CAPTURED BY BBOWN BEARS. 219 
" You say liim tent have bear skin ? " 
" Yes." 
" P'raps him Brown Bear Chilkat." 
" What does he mean ? " asked Dick, appealing to 
Peeschee. 
Biggest tribe of Chilkats called ^ Brown Bears,' " 
answered the Fox, laconically. 
" And you think there may be a detachment of them 
in this out-of-the-way place ? " 
Peeschee nodded. 
Dick was about to question the packers still further, 
when he noticed that the one who had spoken was gazing 
eagerly at a little ornament which dangled from the 
bracelet on Flossie's wrist. 
" What that ? " asked the Chilkat, eagerly. 
" Oh," said Floss, ^' that's just a little charm for my 
bangles. Mamma bought it in Victoria. See — it's a 
bear's head, I believe." 
The dark faces of the Chilkats bent eagerly over the 
flattened bit of copper, and two or three guttural remarks 
were exchanged in their own language. 
" Well, what mischief are you up to now ? " demanded 
Eichard, after he had watched the pantomime long enough. 
The Chilkat looked up. 
" You buy boy and great hunter wid dat," pointing to 
the charm. 
H'm ! seems to me, I remember now," mused Dick. 
The Brown Bears are the wealthiest and biggest clan of 
