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but I went to him even in his cups, so that at last he and his
wife promised with shocking oaths (in English) to ‘ shut
down on it.’ Fortunately he got a sharp attack of rheuma-
tism, which brought out my medicine-chest. Though I can-
not cure myself, I relieved him through the use of that
powerful ally.

“A white man called me to see his sick woman, who was
suffering from heart disease, and she also found relief. He
was really devoted to her, and, but for the fear of grieving
his parents, would marry her. Through the capsizing of a
canoe in a rapid he was in peril of drowning, when she, a
mere girl, at her own risk, saved him from a watery grave.
“I couldn't but take her after that,’ said he, ‘could I?’

“Dandy. Jim had adopted an orphan boy, who, like my
other chum, was devoted to me. He was willing to give
him to me, and my first fast friend was of the same mind ;
but a few hours before I was to leave by steamer, their dread
of expatriation got the better of their ambition. Dandy
Jim finding this out, and fearing his boy would hide himself,
took away his clothes to keep him in the cabin. When I
embarked neither could be found, but about half a mile
lower down the river, as we were passing at quite fifteen
miles an hour, they emerged from the thicket and gesticu-
lated energetically, but I could not hear their voices distinctly
because of the noise made by the engines. We hope to get
them some day. The seed sown will crow.

“During my visit the weather was superb; a pleasant
breeze blew up or down the river daily, and the sun shone
without intermission. In the creek the heat was ereat and
mosquitoes active, so in the morning I used to pin my
blankets together with long thorns and arrange them on the
roof of my tent; but even then the thermometer rose to 93
degrees Fahr. inside at noon. At night I was glad to roll
myself in all the blankets because of the cold.

“The principal village of these Kaiya Dheni (or Tinne)
is twelve miles distant, but during the summer it is deserted.
To the north-west are the Tagish, and to the east are the

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