The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1906-10-26

not give much satisfaction, but whoth. |
cr from lacl, of knowledge himself
or from not wanting us to know, was
not apparent. and this uncertainty
with my cold berth gave me II SILVER,
however. everything came out o. Is.
and AT I a. m we anchored In a beau
tifu inlet In front Of Massct an In.
dian town Of, say 100 Indians, good
frame houses. generally Imprinted,
Now large school house and church,
most of the men speaking English
fairly well our guide ON this trip
"John smith," quito plainly, though
his speech In telling an extended story
like the origin of the Indian doctor,
through mermaid or fish, is treas
urC to listen to. He is quite fond OF
a mOnOlOguC, too, and n fine simple
fellow. About a. m. we went ashore
| by little small boat that We carried,
! to find the inhabitants generally In
bed. though we hadn't got half way
down the one street until we had lots
of company and soon arranged with
"Willic Harding" for breakfast at the
|
away, has the store Of the town and
Is the school teacher. but at present
Is Mt Vancouver along with a number
OF first citizens. | wrote you OF the
general appearance of this room and
| table In my last letter. The meals
were served and mostly prepared |
| think by John Smith, who Is now with
al
atablC We slept In our blankets on
| the floor that night and as our general
Is slow we didn't get away until the
next afternoon. The inlet has strong
! tide and of course In a sail boat both
wind and tide have to he rcCkOned
with We campcd Wednesday night
at the mouth of creek coming to the
inlet and were comfortable. In fact,
our beds are good as we cut lots of
boughs from the evergreen trees to
put our blankets on, though with five
men In an cight-foot bed the middle
man Is close enough Thursday we
went up into the MasSet lake and
Campcd in the trees in a cave near n
cabin and were warmer than the first
night when we had stayed In the open.
Friday we came on in here, taking our
dinner at the mouth of the inlet from
this Jiu-tskala lake into Massct lake.
We are campod at the head of this
lake, some thirty-flve miles from Mas
set town. The weather has been glo-
rious till yesterday 1t became soft and
got a thorough wetting in a two.
mile cruise through the brush. This
led to little laundering in the after
noon including the tea cup towel To
day the two cruisers and John went
to lake to the south. We find that
Mr.. Shannon who, by the way, left
here Saturday as we came Tuesday
took all the timber worth taking
around the two lakes that communi
cate by boating stream and we have
narrowed our quest down now to two
lakes farther south, whose outlets are
small creeks emptying into Jui-ts-katta
and If we find these creeks are not
sufficiently large for bringing GJwn
the logs we will not go farthr.
Later, p. m, our men returned
saying they found some good timber
but creeks insufficient, so | suppose
we will turn toward Masset tomorrow
teaching there Tuesday. | am not
much disappointed in not getting thu
claims as | was pretty sure Mr.. Shan
, non would not leave much. | have
seen his proposition now and viii
probably see him In Vancouver though
| Of 4 N &c In,
holds very high.
, Supper Of Salmon Eggs.
, We ave Just finished supp,r of
; splmon eggs and boiled rice, Iohr
; shot handsome kohose yesterday
and today he tied his knife to 4 >ticl
and speared two more, all about the
l Same size, about twelve pounds. anC
= they are beauties. The first Cveulne
5 we were here went to the little Greet
? with him and he speared two bunch
I backed salmon with a stick, but thCs,
9 didn't enjoy as they are too common
y The kohose is the best of the hal
2 dozen kinds of salmon in these wa
t ters. In the spearing John got hi
/, fish both times at the first thrust y
y his stick, which thought was prett,
good aiming. The fish are crowdini
t up the creek as much as they can L
spawn in the fresh water, there beiui
t all the time at its mouth. The cree
= is quite shallow and they can onl
< get up one or two hundred feet, sever
e al hundred, perhaps thousands, an
II as | write | hear these Hopping abOu
d in the water in play or in their eve
= lutions in crazy efforts to get IL
/, stream. Many Of these are spotte
n with bruises from the pebbles and the
6 run about the same size, say abou
S two feet long
', | am calling this Bear Camp as W
< found a bear trail up from the cree
e yesterday that looked like fires
o cattle path we'll worn, and today job