While my working shift was off, I took an hour or two, for a little hunting, and on a low divide partly grown over with small pines and juniper I found signs, old and new, of many elk, and so concluded the country was well stocked with noble game.

The two canoes, when completed were about fifteen feet long and two feet wide, and we lashed them together for greater security.
When we tried them we found they were too small to carry our load and us, and we landed half a mile below, where there were two other pine trees--white pine--about two feet through, and much taller than the ones we had used.

We set at work making a large canoe of these.

I had to direct the work for I was the only one who had ever done such work.

We worked night and day at these canoes, keeping a big fire at night and changing off to keep the axes busy.