PAGE OUR PARTY ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS _Frontispiece_. OUR NIGHT CAMP ON EAGLE RIVER.--EXPECTING THE CREES 68 OUR WINTER HUT.--LA BELLE PRAIRIE 76 A MARTEN TRAP 102 SWAMP FORMED BY BEAVER, WITH ANCIENT BEAVER HOUSE AND DAM 179 FORT EDMONTON, ON THE NORTH SASKATCHEWAN 183 THE FOREST ON FIRE 225 OVER THE MOUNTAIN, NEAR JASPER HOUSE 231 VIEW FROM THE HILL OPPOSITE JASPER HOUSE.--THE UPPER LAKE OF THE ATHABASCA RIVER AND PRIEST’S ROCK 232 CROSSING THE ATHABASCA RIVER, IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS 245 THE ASSINIBOINE RESCUES BUCEPHALUS 259 OUR MISADVENTURE WITH THE RAFT IN CROSSING CANOE RIVER 271 A VIEW ON THE NORTH THOMPSON, LOOKING EASTWARD 275 THE TRAIL AT AN END 281 MR. O’B. TRIUMPHANTLY CROSSES THE RIVER 292 THE HEADLESS INDIAN 296 THE TERRACES ON THE FRASER RIVER 338 YALE, ON THE FRASER RIVER 345 THE “RATTLESNAKE GRADE.”--PAVILLON MOUNTAIN, BRITISH COLUMBIA; ALTITUDE, 4,000 FEET 356 A WAY-SIDE HOUSE.--ARRIVAL OF MINERS 357 A WAY-SIDE HOUSE AT MIDNIGHT 357 MINERS WASHING FOR GOLD 370 THE CAMERON “CLAIM,” WILLIAM’S CREEK, CARIBOO 371 GENERAL MAP OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, SHOWING THE AUTHORS’ ROUTE ACROSS THE CONTINENT (_Bound with Volume._) MAP OF THE WESTERN PORTION OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA, SHOWING THE ROUTE ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS BY THE YELLOW HEAD, OR, LEATHER PASS INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA, ON A LARGER SCALE. (_In the Pocket._) PREFACE. The following pages contain the narrative of an Expedition across the Continent of North America, through the Hudson’s Bay Territories, into British Columbia, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains. The expedition was undertaken with the design of discovering the most direct route through British territory to the gold regions of Cariboo, and exploring the unknown country on the western flank of the Rocky Mountains, in the neighbourhood of the sources of the north branch of the Thompson River.