es fires burning on the hill-tops, and con

) intercept us.”

ee 2 Y
This awakened me to a sense of our _ bank. They made signs to us to cross to

situation. We made every effort with them, which we did.”
d that, as in Scotland in the olden paddle and tracking line to get upstream as

im ese were signals to gather the tribes fast as we could. On the fourth morning we
came to a party of Indians on the opposite This fearless course met with every show

PIONEER ENvoy

of hostility. The Indians stood on the high

Machinery on the Alcan Highway.

bank with bows bent and arrows on the
string. Refusing to come down for tobacco,
they would scarcely take their hands from
their bows to receive it when sent up
to them.

Campbell’s bold but conciliatory attitude
eased the tension, and he went ashore.
Though he termed the interview “amicable,”
he says “it required some finessing to get
away from them.”

“But once in the canoe, we quickly
pushed out of range of their arrows, while
I faced about, gun in hand, to watch their
actions. We worked hard all that day till
very- late, hoping to get above the rocky
barrier of Deriviere’s Rapid, but had to
camp short of it. The men were completely
tired out and I made them sleep in my tent
while I kept watch in the fork of a tree on
the grassy bank.”

There is twenty-four hours of daylight at
this time of the year along the Yukon.
Though he kept what he termed a vigilant
look-out through this anxious night, he broke
it with reading Harvey's Meditations.
Two years passed before the Indians con-
fessed how nearly the party escaped being
massacred this night.

“The next. morning we were early in

—Photo by Const. L. W. Clay, Fort St. John Detachment Motion, and believing we had outstripped

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