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hopeful that something would soon be
 encountered, as the dogs greatly
 needed food. One of the unarmed
 Indian guides came back and begged a
 pistol, as he explained this country
 was one famous for savage bears and
 an encounter might be expected any
 time plunging through the brush. We
 encountered no bears and lost no
 Indians. Tie game excitement was
 kept up by Indians ahead reporting
 they had shot a caribou, but that it
 had escaped. That evening we camped
 on stream that was undoubtedly a
 branch of the Selwyn, a river I named
 in 1883 after the director of the Can
 adian Geological Survey while drifting
 by its mouth. Bowker prospected a
 ''rim-rock" ledge for gold, but only got
 a couple of colors; David, prospecting
 for grayling, got five. Next morn
 ing we ascended the Selwyn
 short distance and then took
 up one of its westerly branches.
 In this latter the grayling were so
 abundant that the Indians hastily ex-
 temporized spears of forked poles and
 caught quite a number of them. From
 this stream we ascended a high ridge
 and were descending into the valley be-
 JOha IN II d nnOl WE a0caO ana
 on coming up found that David had
 killed a fine two ear-old caribou cow.
 All around us were other fresh signs.
 some few of wild goats also, while
 blower were numerous on the high bar ren ridges That evening, as we went
 into camp, we encountered mosquitoes in the greatest abundance we had vet seen on the expedition, or that we ever
 Csl NY al sar.fIs, | breathe without getting them in the mouth or nostrils, while I wore out the crown of my hat completely in beating 1t to keep them away. That day, on the trail, hornet or wasp stung me severely; and, in a general sort of way, l wished l was back in the land of rat tlesnakes, centipedes and tarantulas. Throughout all this country I noticed the tops of many of the ridges were serrated with projecting pinnacles and pillars Of rocks that gave the rolling hills and otherwise almost pastoral scenery an extremely picturesque ap- pearance. Near us a lake had been damned by an enormous ice-gorge. not half of which had yet melted. This icv lake, with the snow-drifts all around on the ridges, gave the country a more general Arctic appearance for July than ever saw for the same month on King Williams Land in the Arctic, where Sir John Franklin's large party had so terribly perished with cold and hunger. Next morning we awoke to the fact the dogs had eaten up most of the cari- bou during the night and, though not lost to use by this theft, yet they had overgorged themselves until loathe to move, whining piteously when their masters beat them rather than move along Next day 2n a--cca hle surprise | was had iD reaching the White | river basin by an unexpected | low pass when the prospects showed ! very high hills and ridges.
 The next day. July l4, we made some thirteen miles, little over the daily ] average we had been travelling so far |
 The forenoon of the 18th gave us some pretty high climbing and in a few | hours we were 2,2OO feet above the | camp. From this ridge we | could see the valley of the main White river from which ascended a number of scattered smokes, some of which, our guides told us, were the camping places of other Indians. while others. as we could see, were spreading forest fires, probably set by accident We could also see snow clad mountains to the far southwest, evidently our first glimpse of the distant St. Elias Alps. or some of it's interior bearing spurs. Bearing south by west. from twenty five to thirty miles away, was an enOr- nous lake of at least twenty miles in