So, too, are the red and black gooseberries, service-berry, choke-cherry, and the black, yellow, red, and purple currants, which last seems to be a favorite food of the bear.

Before camping we landed and took on board Captain Clark, with the meat he had collected during this day's hunt, which consisted of one deer and an elk; we had, ourselves, shot a deer and an antelope." The party found quantities of wild onions of good flavor and size.

They also observed wild flax, garlic, and other vegetable products of value.
The journal adds:-- "We saw many otter and beaver to-day (July 24th).

The latter seem to contribute very much to the number of islands, and the widening of the river.

They begin by damming up the small channels of about twenty yards between the islands: this obliges the river to seek another outlet, and, as soon as this is effected, the channel stopped by the beaver becomes filled with mud and sand.