Set out from Edmonton--Prophecies of Evil--Mr. O’B.’s Forebodings--Lake St. Ann’s--We enter the Forest--A Rough Trail--Mr. O’B., impressed with the Difficulties which beset him, commences the study of Paley--Pembina River--The Coal-bed--Game--Curious Habit of the Willow Grouse--Mr. O’B. en route--Changes wrought by Beaver-- The Assiniboine’s Adventure with the Grisly Bears--Mr. O’B. prepares to sell his Life dearly--Hunt for the Bears--Mr. O’B. Protects the Camp--The Bull-dogs--The Path through the Pine Forest--The Elbow of the McLeod-- Baptiste becomes Discontented--Trout Fishing--Moose Hunting--Baptiste Deserts--Council--Resolve to Proceed-- We lose the Trail--The Forest on Fire--Hot Quarters-- Working for Life--Escape--Strike the Athabasca River-- First View of the Rocky Mountains--Mr. O’B. spends a Restless Night--Over the Mountain--Magnificent Scenery-- Jasper House--Wild Flowers--Hunting the “Mouton Gris” and the “Mouton Blanc” 203 CHAPTER XIII. Making a Raft--Mr. O’B. at Hard Labour--He admires our “Youthful Ardour”--News of Mr. Macaulay--A Visitor--Mr. O’B. Fords a River--Wait for Mr. Macaulay--The Shushwaps of the Rocky Mountains--Winter Famine at Jasper House-- The Wolverine--The Miners before us--Start again-- Cross the Athabasca--The Priest’s Rock--Site of the Old Fort, “Henry’s House”--The Valley of the Myette-- Fording Rapids--Mr. O’B. on Horseback again--Swimming the Myette--Cross it for the Last Time--The Height of Land-- The Streams run Westward--Buffalo-dung Lake--Strike the Fraser River--A Day’s Wading--Mr. O’B.’s Hair-breadth Escapes--Moose Lake--Rockingham Falls--More Travelling through Water--Mr. O’B. becomes disgusted with his Horse-- Change in Vegetation--Mahomet’s Bridge--Change in the Rocks--Fork of the Fraser, or original Tête Jaune Cache-- Magnificent Scenery--Robson’s Peak--Flood and Forest-- Horses carried down the Fraser--The Pursuit--Intrepidity of The Assiniboine--He rescues Bucephalus--Loss of Gisquakarn--Mr. O’B.’s Reflections and Regrets--Sans Tea and Tobacco--The Extent of our Losses--Mr. O’B. and Mrs. Assiniboine--Arrive at The Cache 236 CHAPTER XIV.