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t he had a lot to learn about travelling
this country. “Did you see Sir Arthur?”
ys he. “Sir who?” says I. Then he tells
, about this outfit and Sir Arthur going
t to hunt for the horses, and they waiting
chile for him, and as he didn’t come back
ey went on to Bobtail Lake.

“The hell you did”, says I. “Do you
san to tell me that when a man gets lost
u don’t look for him? Come on back and
’s see if we can find him”. Pocock and
artis had had a quarrel, which may ex-
rin why he didn’t bother about his
sence. The party kept military camp
d more or less military discipline, and
ch one had to do their share of the camp
ores. Sir Arthur was a pretty high-
irited and proud man and insisted on
ing his share of the chores. This morning
_ was to go after the horses at daybreak.
he horses came drifting in in small groups
it Sir Arthur never appeared, and they did
‘thing about it, just waited awhile and
en went on as if nothing out of the way
d happened; left him there lost in the
ish without making any effort to organize
search.

I was not able to wait very long myself,
- I was due at my meeting place, but we
ent back to the Curtis camp, rode around
bit and shouted and fired several shots
ithout getting any response. Of course
.is was a good many hours after and Curtis
ad probably wandered a long way by that
me. The Hudson’s Bay Company went
) great expense to look for him with Indian
ackers when the matter was reported and
is friends in the old country had written
1e heads of the Company in London to

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order a search, but that was some few days
later. I heard that they only gave one day’s
ration at a time to the Indians hunting for
him. Leon, a Stony Creek Indian, was in
charge of the party. He said to me after-
wards: “Anderson, they just give us enough
for one day. If they gave me a week’s pro-
visions I would have got him. This man
just go like one crazy bear”. A chap told
me that he had camped on Bednesti Lake,
half way between Mud River and Chilako,
and there was a strange human cry at night.
This would be about the time he would
have made that neighbourhood if headed
in that direction. There was a big swamp
between where this chap was and the direc
tion from which the cry came. I have no
doubt that poor Curtis had been wandering
in the bush, and that he quite likely
foundered in the swamp. There was some
talk of murder when the story came out,
but it is certain that there was nothing in it.
They never found any trace of him although
they found one or two places where he had
evidently been?®.

The fellow I was going to meet when I
came across the Curtis party was being
brought down from Fort Grahame for trial
for cutting his partner’s head open with an
axe. Two men had him in charge, ironed
and with his legs tied together under the
horse’s belly. I met them the other side of
Stony Creek. I sent the men back with the
irons and told them to untie the prisoner’s
legs. The fellow looked at me. “You need
not look”, I said, “You won’t make a break
from me for if you do you are a dead man.”
Our first stop, by a coincidence, was at
Graveyard Lake. It was raining cats and
dogs and he wanted to crawl under the
shelter I built for the horses. I had two
little grub bags down in front of my saddle,
with a little billycan and a little hardtack,
(unsweetened biscuit). I let the fellow look
after the fire and the cooking. He could
not possibly get away or get hold of any
weapon. I went off and caught some trout
in the lake and gave them to him to cook.
He objected that we had no frypan. “There
is an old tobacco tin lying there; use that”,
I told him. Afterwards he told me he had
never tasted better trout. Next morning
we hit the Hudson’s Bay trail on the Black-
water, and by early afternoon were in
Quesnel. Fifty miles a day was nothing to
make to me or Mike.

Frank Aiken and I spent three weeks in
the Chilcotin country after Ernest Louis,

an Indian who, with a companion, killed a
Chinaman for $5 and a plug of tobacco.
We gradually rounded him up and kept

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