Tête Jaune Cache--Nature of the Country--Wonderful View-- West of the Rocky Mountains--Rocky Mountains still--The “Poire,” or Service Berry--The Shushwaps of The Cache-- The Three Miners--Gain but little Information about the Road--The Iroquois return to Jasper House--Loss of Mr. O’B.’s Horse--Leave The Cache--The Watersheds--Canoe River--Perilous Adventure with a Raft--Milton and the Woman--Extraordinary Behaviour of Mr. O’B.--The Rescue-- The Watershed of the Thompson--Changes by Beaver--Mount Milton--Enormous Timber--Cross the River--Fork of the North Thompson--A Dilemma--No Road to be Found--Cross the North-west Branch--Mr. O’B.’s Presentiment of Evil-- Lose the Trail again--Which Way shall we Turn?--Resolve to try and reach Kamloops--A Natural Bridge--We become Beasts of Burden--Mr. O’B. objects, but is overruled by The Assiniboine--“A Hard Road to Travel”--Miseries of driving Pack-horses--An Unwelcome Discovery--The Trail Ends--Lost in the Forest--Our Disheartening Condition-- Council of War--Explorations of The Assiniboine, and his Report--A Feast on Bear’s Meat--How we had a Smoke, and were encouraged by The Assiniboine 264 CHAPTER XV. We commence to Cut our Way--The Pathless Primeval Forest-- The Order of March--Trouble with our Horses: their Perversity--Continual Disasters--Our Daily Fare-- Mount Cheadle--Country Improves only in Appearance-- Futile Attempt to Escape out of the Valley--A Glimpse of Daylight--Wild Fruits--Mr. O’B. triumphantly Crosses the River--The Assiniboine Disabled--New Arrangements-- Hopes of Finding Prairie-Land--Disappointment--Forest and Mountain Everywhere--False Hopes again--Provisions at an End--Council of War--The Assiniboine Hunts without Success--The Headless Indian--“Le Petit Noir” Condemned and Executed--Feast on Horse-flesh--Leave Black Horse Camp--Forest again--The Assiniboine becomes Disheartened--The Grand Rapid--A Dead Lock--Famishing Horses--The Barrier--Shall we get Past?--Mr. O’B. and Bucephalus--Extraordinary Escape of the Latter-- More Accidents--La Porte d’Enfer--Step by Step--The Assiniboine Downcast and Disabled--Mrs. Assiniboine takes his Place--The Provisions give out again--A Dreary Beaver Swamp--The Assiniboine gives up in Despair--Mr. O’B. begins to Doubt, discards Paley, and prepares to become Insane--We kill another Horse--A Bird of Good Omen-- The Crow speaks Truth--Fresher Sign--A Trail--The Road rapidly Improves--Out of the Forest at last! 286 CHAPTER XVI.