with becoming dignity took her place by the fireside soon two other laden women came in seemingly enjoying the rain like the bushes and trees they put on little clothing so that they may be the more easily dried and as for the children a thin shirt of is the most they themselves with and get wet and half dry without seeming to notice it while we shiver with two or three dry coats they seem to prefer being naked the men also wear but little in wet weather when they go out for all day they put on a single blanket but in around camp getting cooking or looking after their precious canvas they seldom wear anything wind and rain in utter to avoid the bother of drying clothes it is a rare sight to see the children bringing in big of on their shoulders in crossing with firmly set and back muscles we gave hood oo the old chief some i bay tobacco and rice and coffee and pitched our tent near his hut among tall grass soon after our arrival the bay sub chief came in from the opposite direction from ours telling us that he came through a cut off passage not on our as stated above we took pains to him and soothe his hurt feelings our words and gifts he said had warmed his sore heart and made him glad and comfortable the view down the bay among the islands was i thought the finest of this kind of scenery that i had yet observed the weather continued cold and rainy nevertheless mr young and i and our crew together with one of the an old man who acted as guide left camp to explore one of the upper arms of the bay where we were told there was a large we managed to push the several miles up the stream that the to a point where the swift current was divided among rocks and the banks were with and i left the and pushed up the right bank past a magnificent some twelve hundred feet high and over the shoulder of a mountain until i secured a good view of the lower part of the it is probably a of the bay or on our return to camp thoroughly and cold the old chief came to visit us apparently as wet and cold as ourselves i have been thinking of you all day he said and pitying you knowing how miserable you were and as soon as i saw your coming back i was travels in ashamed to think that i had been sitting warm and dry at my fire while you were out in the storm therefore i made haste to strip off my dry clothing and put on these wet rags to share your misery and show how much i love you i had another long talk with hood oo the next day i am not able he said to tell you how much good your words have done me your words are good and they are strong words some of my people are foolish and when they make their salmon traps they do not take care to tie the poles firmly together and when the big rain floods come the traps break and are washed away because the people who made them are foolish people but your words are strong words and when storms come to try them they will stand the storms there was much hand shaking as we took our leave and assurances of eternal friendship the grand old man stood on the shore watching us and waving farewell until we were out of sight we now for the and arrived at the front on the east side the evening of the third and on the end of the where there was a small stream captain was inclined to keep at a safe distance from the tremendous threatening cliffs of the wall after a good deal of urging he ventured within half a mile of them on the east side of the where with mr young i went ashore to seek a camp ground on the leaving the indians in the in a few minutes bay after we landed a huge sprung aloft with awful commotion and the frightened indians fled down the their with admirable energy in the tossing waves until a safe harbor was reached around the south end of the i found a good place for a camp in a slight hollow where a few afforded but all efforts to get out of his harbor failed nobody knew he said how far the angry ice mountain could throw waves to break his therefore i had my and some provisions carried to my stump camp where i could watch the as they were discharged and get night views of the brow of the and its sheer jagged face all the way across from side to side of the channel one night the water was luminous and the from the water into silver fire a glorious sight in the darkness i also went back up the east side of the five or six miles and ascended a mountain between its first two eastern which though covered with grass near the top was exceedingly steep and difficult a ridge near the top i discovered was formed of ice a remnant of the when it stood at this elevation which had been preserved by material and later by a of dwarf bushes and grass next morning at daybreak i pushed eagerly back over the comparatively smooth eastern margin of the to see as much as possible of the upper fountain region about five miles back from the front i climbed a mountain twenty five hundred feet high u i travels in from the summit of which the day being clear the vast and its principal branches were displayed in one magnificent view instead of a stream of ice winding 