They go in large herds to water about the falls, and as all the passages to the river near that place are narrow and steep, the foremost are pressed into the river by the impatience of those behind.

In this way we have seen ten or a dozen disappear over the falls in a few minutes.

They afford excellent food for the wolves, bears, and birds of prey; which circumstance may account for the reluctance of the bears to yield their dominion over the neighborhood.
"The pirogue was drawn up a little below our camp, and secured in a thick copse of willow-bushes.

We now began to form a cache or place of deposit, and to dry our goods and other articles which required inspection.

The wagons are completed.