. Rod and gun . ure and taking us offon another wild goose chase, he gotcranky, and said we could all go to H—if we wanted to and that he was going tol)Ut in the rest of the winter in his ohlcabin on McPhearson Lake! Jack andAlec, thought that would suit them. the three of them went and Joe and Isaw them no more. We then started outto try and find some marten, having^iven up all hope of finding any gold. we liad enough stuff to haul around with-out them. They are probably there yet. While Joe went out setting deadfalls forthe marten I made a couple of pairs ofsnowshoes and a dog sleigh.
. Rod and gun . ure and taking us offon another wild goose chase, he gotcranky, and said we could all go to H—if we wanted to and that he was going tol)Ut in the rest of the winter in his ohlcabin on McPhearson Lake! Jack andAlec, thought that would suit them. the three of them went and Joe and Isaw them no more. We then started outto try and find some marten, having^iven up all hope of finding any gold. we liad enough stuff to haul around with-out them. They are probably there yet. While Joe went out setting deadfalls forthe marten I made a couple of pairs ofsnowshoes and a dog sleigh. I used thehide of one of the moose to fill the snow-shoes and lash the sleigh together;we had no nails or screws and the onlytools were our knives and axes. I madea gimlet and a morticing chisel out ofan old file. We stayed in that camp amonth, only catching twelve marten, asthe country round there had been abouttrapped out l)y the Indians. About the second week in Decemberwe got back to Francis Lake entirely. The Author and a Grizzly Bear. Finding a few tracks in the snow (bythen there was nearly a foot on theground) on the slopes of the mountainswhich lie to the east of a long, narrowlake called the Windigoe, I think, wemade a good camp on a creek which raninto it. By then our meat had run out,so we went after moose again, each kill-ing one. The one I killed had hornswhich measured sixty-two inches across,and they looked small in comparison tothe pair I saw on a big bull on theNahanni. I hung them up in a tree, as without white mans grub, did not haveeven tea or salt. As our meat supply hadalso run out. Joe went back on the hills toget a moose. I hung a net which we hadwith us and set it in the lake, but intwo days only got one white fish, as themesh was too small. Joe returned witha good chunk of meat, having shot amoose, up in a gulch about ten milesfrom the lake. Next day we moved camp towithin two miles from the dead moose,which Joe had buried in the snow. That 848 ROD
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