. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . JUST ABO\E THE QU.^DACHA ABOVE THE FORKS. TO THE MOUTH OF THE QUADACHA 147 contrast became more and more accentuated, and weknew that the goal we were seeking could not be fardistant. A little before sunset we camped in an opengrove of spruce on the west bank, in sight of the mouthof the Quadacha or Whitewater. This was the thir-teenth day since our leaving the Forks and the twenty-fourth from Prince George. It also happened to be mybirthday. I went
. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . JUST ABO\E THE QU.^DACHA ABOVE THE FORKS. TO THE MOUTH OF THE QUADACHA 147 contrast became more and more accentuated, and weknew that the goal we were seeking could not be fardistant. A little before sunset we camped in an opengrove of spruce on the west bank, in sight of the mouthof the Quadacha or Whitewater. This was the thir-teenth day since our leaving the Forks and the twenty-fourth from Prince George. It also happened to be mybirthday. I went to sleep that night feeling well pleased overour progress. Thanks to good luck and Joes skill as ariver-man, we had completed our outward canoe journeyin a shorter time than I had dared to hope. We had reached the edge of the Known. Before uslay the strenuous work of penetrating the mountains inback of beyond. CHAPTER XIWHAT MAKES THE QUADACHA WHITE Take a gallon of water and pour into it a quart ofmilk, and you will have a fluid closely resembling theflood that the Quadacha in summer empties into theFinlay. Above the junction the Finlay is as clear asan
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