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One of the squaws who had seen me agreed with him, but they were bound and taken to the encampment. The next morning an Indian found my coat and shoes lodged on a gravel bar and picked up my trail. The camp moved then by canoe around to the mouth of the Duckabush. taking the prisoners with them, and waited for my trailers to come down.

'Now, she said, 'you take that road down the Duckabush, and don't you stop short of a mile. Ain't you ashamed, she shrilled, as I moved ignominiously into the trail, 'going 'round scaring ladies to death? "But I did not go that mile. Out of sight of the cabin I found myself in one of those old burned sections, overgrown with maple.

A young hunter up the Dosewallups, where the Indians were berrying, killed the baby in jumping a log. "'Yes, madam, I answered, and rose and put the cup down, 'I am the man. It is harder breaking trail to the Lilliwaup than coming by canoe, and the Indians have beaten me. I must double back now to the Duckabush. By that time, they will have given up the watch.

In a little while the ground began to fall in short pitches; sometimes it broke in steps over granite spurs where the exposed roots of fir and hemlock twined; then I came to a place where an immense boulder, big as a house, moving down the mountain, had left a swath through the timber, and I heard the thunder of the Duckabush.

I knew they would patrol the stream as soon as the alarm was given, and my only chance was to make a wide detour, avoiding my camp where they would first look for me, swim the river, and push through the forest, around that steep, pyramid peak to the next canyon. You see it? The Duckabush cuts through there to tide water.

I had not forgotten the first impression I made on the woman up the Duckabush and had no desire to 'scare ladies. But my steamer was almost due, and I hoped John would come soon. Getting no reply from him, she rose and glanced around. Then she looked at her watch, put her hand to her mouth, and sent a long call up the gorge. 'Joh-n.

Once during the night John had drifted close to the camp to listen, but things were quiet, and they had bridged the morning with a little fishing and sketching up-stream. "'Suppose, I said at last, 'suppose you had been afraid of me. I should be doubling back to the Duckabush now. As it is, I wouldn't give much for their opinion of me.

It flashed over me that he was one of the two Indians who had tracked me to the Duckabush; the taller one who had tried to drink at the rill; then he made his throw and at the same instant the girl's hat fell again on my face. I heard her call her pleasant 'Clahowya! and she added, rowing on evenly: 'Hyas delate salmon. The next moment his answer rang astern: 'Clahowya! Clahowya!