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Title: On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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e, for I had always thoughtof the mountain-goat as sticking pretty close to baresummits, yet here was a spot he frequented miles froma bare mountain top, and thickly overgrown with timberand bushes. Doubtless he felt at home there becausethe steep cliffs of the Canyon afforded him a refuge incase of danger. The walls of the Sheep Creek gorge were completelyimpassable, so we had to descend once more to the Fin-lay. While we rested at the mouth of the stream Ionce more tried fishing, but though the spot was a mostfavorable one, and I saw several big arctics, I could notget a single rise—another instance, it seemed to me, ofthe ill luck that was pursuing us. Half a dozen troutat that time would have been most acceptable. It was some consolation that when we began to climbout of the Finlay gorge we discovered a trail whose widthshowed that it had evidently been used years before bypack-horses. That horses had at some time been broughtinto the country we had concluded earlier in the day,
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< O ac Z 2 DOWN TO THE LONG CANYON 213 for we had found the skull of such an animal not farfrom our camp. It was a new experience to be follow-ing a travelled way, and though several times the trailbecame so faint that we were obliged to search for it,we never failed to find the old blazes and the path.There were half-obliterated boot marks in soft places,and these we judged had been made by the Huston party.A mile or so up the slope we found pieces of tin-foil, andseveral of the pictures that go with packages of a certainbrand of milk chocolate. They have already begun to feel the work, saidJoe, and are shovelling in coal. It will be lucky if they took along a good supply,said I, for then we shall be finding traces that will makeus certain that we are on the right trail. The picture on the cards was of the relief expeditionsent out to find the ill-fated Captain Scott. We hopedthere was nothing ominous in it! The trail so heartened us that we made great progressalong it, particular

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