Chapter XIII

Making a Raft--Mr. O’B. at Hard Labour--He admires our
“Youthful Ardour”--News of Mr. Macaulay--A Visitor--Mr.
O’B. Fords a River--Wait for Mr. Macaulay--The Shushwaps
of the Rocky Mountains--Winter Famine at Jasper House--
The Wolverine--The Miners before us--Start again--
Cross the Athabasca--The Priest’s Rock--Site of the
Old Fort, “Henry’s House”--The Valley of the Myette--
Fording Rapids--Mr. O’B. on Horseback again--Swimming the
Myette--Cross it for the Last Time--The Height of Land--
The Streams run Westward--Buffalo-dung Lake--Strike the
Fraser River--A Day’s Wading--Mr. O’B.’s Hair-breadth
Escapes--Moose Lake--Rockingham Falls--More Travelling
through Water--Mr. O’B. becomes disgusted with his Horse--
Change in Vegetation--Mahomet’s Bridge--Change in the
Rocks--Fork of the Fraser, or original Tête Jaune Cache--
Magnificent Scenery--Robson’s Peak--Flood and Forest--
Horses carried down the Fraser--The Pursuit--Intrepidity
of The Assiniboine--He rescues Bucephalus--Loss of
Gisquakarn--Mr. O’B.’s Reflections and Regrets--Sans Tea
and Tobacco--The Extent of our Losses--Mr. O’B. and Mrs.
Assiniboine--Arrive at The Cache 236