10 “CHRONICLES OF THE CARIBOO

instruct ¢o assist you in getting your packs in order and to the capacity

of your animals. ; Oe ae

“Wow if you will give me a list of your requirements we will pro-
ceed to get them cut at once. Oh, and by the way. The Indians will
not know what to do with your gold, Mr. Dunlevey. May I suggest |
that you bring:the chief in here and I’ve no doubt we can arrange |

matters to our mutual satisfaction.” Then he stopped and laugned
as he said: “Well, now this is a gcod cne on the good old Hudson's |

Bay! Do you know, Mr. Dunlevey, I haven’t such a thing as a set

of troy scales to weigh your gold on, and that’s one thing I’ll have to

order right away.”

“Oh,” Dunlevey said, and grinned, “that is easily remedied for
this deal anyway. We have a set of gold scales with us. It is small
but will do nicely.”

So we seé how Dunlevey’s persuasive sophistry based on sound
sounding logic won again—how a prospector has to be something of a

diplomat at times. And this time
kad, in a way, actually reversed
the trading policy of this great
trading company.

Dunlevey used to take great de-
light in relating this episode of his
trip, going over and over the de-
tcils of the conversations and imi-
tating the gentlemanly Factor’s
rather stilted language. Especially
as to the Factor’s naive allusions
to Dunlevey’s own gentiemanliness.
He must have told this to his
crcnies many times, so who knows
but trat was how, in those early
days, he came to be known famil-
larly as “Pete, the Gentleman

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Dunlevey lost no time in inter-
viewing the prospectors that Sellers
“For him no gold, no bottle. and Crow had met. By that time
Only ruin for his Hunting many more had reached Kamloops,
Grounds,” ‘

and from some discouraged ones
of these, he bought miners’ tools
he found he couldn’t get at the Hudson’s Bay Store. It must have
been here, too, that John McLean, Jim Moore and one or two others
joined Dunlevey’s camp. But not as partners. Dunlevey agreed that
a few more good axemen would be all right in cutting their way

_ from Lac La Hache through the woods to the little: river.

With the aid of the Hudson’s Bay expert packers it was but a few
days till the party was ready to set out. They now had twelve pack-
‘ horses, counting the two they had brought from ‘Lillooet, with packing