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they now had enough to last till they reached
Fort George, with what game they found on the
way.

But this story would not be true to life nor
to the facts concerning what befell the men
who undertook that first overland journey to
British Columbia and the Cariboo if it was
made to appear that all their adventures ended
well, and the real and terrible tragedies were
all left out. It was not so, as the following
day was to prove.

The raft that had preceded them left at
early dawn. Jacques allowed a couple of hours
to elapse before he followed. When they had
passed the professor’s salmon pool they were
near the end of the smooth water, and in a
short time after the whirlpools and frothing
eddies began. Jacques landed and went scout-
ing along the bank, leaving the raft tied to one
of the big fir trees that in many places grew
close to the water. He returned to tell them
that there was a fall of such a depth further on
that it would be necessary to make a portage.
This they did, leaving the raft in the water
and tracking it along the bank by means of a
strong rope. The cliffs were high, but the rope

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