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ceeded in rounding up by this means fifty head,
which were then shot from ambush by bow and
arrow. It was a wonderful sight and I shall
describe it at length in what will make an
interesting chapter for my book.”

‘And then what did you do?” urged Arthur.

“Well, a strange thing happened. While
the Indians were busy with their deer meat,
stripping it, drying it and packing it to carry
away with them, I tramped in the woods round
about. . One day I had the extraordinary good
fortune to come on another camp. But this
time it was a white man’s camp, and none
other than the camp of the party who had left
us in the Yellow Head Pass, to strike south,
as you know, to reach the North Thompson
and try to make their way down to Kamloops.
Think of me, wandering at random in the
forest, and coming on them like that.”

Of course, they all exclaimed with wonder.
Even Fred Wilfer was struck by the profes-
sor’s luck.

“It was one chance in many thousand,”
continued the latter. “But if it hadn’t hap-
pened, I’d have got through some other way
perhaps, for by that time we were close to the

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