hotographs. The river here is about a
mile wide.

"We left at 4 P.M., and soon stopped to take on wood. Ran
till 8 o'clock before we could begin to see the outlines of
the Nahanni Mountains. Suppose they are a spur of the great
Rockies wandered this far away from home. A veil of smoke
seems to hang over them. We boys could not sleep very well,
and were up till 1 o'clock looking at the scenery. Uncle
Dick has been talking with the captain of our boat about the
Nahanni River, which comes down here through a notch in the
mountains. The Indians go up to the North Nahanni, portage
across to the South Nahanni, run down to the Liard River,
and come down it to the Mackenzie. This is a trip no white
man has ever taken. It must be a wild country in there. John
is honest with his map, so he just marks this place
'Unknown.' Prospectors have gone up the Liard to the
Nahanni. The geologists say there is no chance for gold in
there.

"_Saturday, July 5th._--Fort Wrigley at 7.35 in the morning.
One independent post besides the H. B. post. A good deal of
fur in these two posts, and some very fine fox skins. The
marten seem rather yellow, the lynx good, beaver and bear
good. We saw one wolverine skin here, a good many mink, and
one otter skin. This otter skin was not cased, as we fixed
them in Alaska, but was split and stretched like a beaver
skin. They say the Indians do that way with their otter
here. Did not stop long at this post, as we are beginning to
hurry now.

"It is a strange thing to us that we have not seen any game
on all this trip. No one has seen a moose since the one that
was killed above the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca. I
suppose the game country is back in farther. The Indians get
plenty of moose for their leather-work.

"In the evening we came to Fort Norman, which marks the
entry of the Bear River. I should call that the gate of
another land of mystery--up in there somewhere Sir John
Franklin perished. They say the white Eskimos are
descendants of some of his men. They say a man was taken
captive by the Indians up in there, and lived with them
several years, and then got out. He lives now somewhere in
Saskatchewan.

"At 9.45 we saw a burning bank on the Mackenzie River. It is
said to have burned fort