all the discomfiture of rain and fog and snow is forgiven, if 
not forgotten! 
Camped some twelve or fifteen miles from Telegraph 
Creek. Little knocking down five grouse and two mallards, 
we had a “big feed” to-night. 
Little and I started from camp about eight, coming in 
Oct. nth ahead of the packtrain. Used what is known as the “Old 
Indian Trail,” it being somewhat shorter than the route fol¬ 
lowed by the train. 
This being our last day, we packed the bell mare again, 
and as we were in a hurry to reach “town,” employed the 
“One-man pony-express” method, so called. 
By this, Little left camp on my saddle-horse, riding hard 
as possible. After covering perhaps a mile he jumped off, tied 
the horse, and then proceeded on foot, at jog-trot and fast 
walk. And reaching the horse, then, I mounted the animal 
and galloped on, a full mile or so past Little; where I dis¬ 
mounted and left the horse to await him, while I in turn went 
afoot. This procedure was followed until the landing ’cross 
the river from Telegraph Creek was reached. By means of it 
two men can make very good time with but a single horse. 
Jumped four moose within three miles of Telegraph Creek, 
and, had we been prepared, could no doubt have secured one 
or more. One of them at least, was a bull; though we could 
not tell the size head carried. 
Arriving opposite the Creek, hailed some Indians, ’cross 
the river, to come over and get us. 
Several sportsmen, we are told, have already left for down 
river. Millais, whom we expected to meet here, we also learn, 
was taken ill when only out a couple of weeks, he developing 
a very bad attack of pleurisy, as result of the weather. After 
recuperating at the Creek for a couple of days, he has taken 
a canoe down the river. 
Little’s caribou and my sheep have both been very much 
admired, and on measuring by the Government commissioner 
here, the latter was entered as the record-head from the Cas- 
siar! 
Quite a number of prospectors came in during the day, 
they and we bunking together over Hyland’s trading-post. 
The men are a most interesting type. After being out in the 
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