survived on insects. I picked up a straw and carefully touched the
hairs in the throat of one of the flowers. It shivered and moved a bit
and I am convinced it was one of the insect catchers.

We made camp forthe second night and the next day continued
to follow the trader’s route. Late in the afternoon of the third day we
came to the Little Grand Rapids Reserve where we made our head-
quarters. ]ohn Duck and his people were very good to us, even
loaning us a cabin to use while we were there. The area where we
intended to stake the claims was about three miles west of the Re-
serve. The morning after our arrival, Alfred rented three large tobog-
gans from the Hudson’s Bay Trading Post and we used them to carry
our tools to the claim site with a horse hitched to each toboggan.

Iohn Duck took us to the outcroppings where he had found the
rock sample. We had to put up four foot high posts, measuring 4"
square, for every claim, and we marked each one with our names
and the date. The government did not give out metal tags to mark
claims as they do now. In some places we couldn’t drive a post, so we
hewed an existing tree to the specified size and marked it. We staked,
altogether, sixteen claims.

There was a powwow at the Reserve the night before we planned
to leave. The natives invited us to come for the dancing. It was held
in a huge log house with a big heater in the middle, no chimney, just
a hole in the roof to let the smoke out. The natives, men and women,
gathered around in a large circle and asked us to join in. One man
sang and rattled a tin can full of stones, making the music for
dancing. At the same time everybody began to hum and we all
hopped around in the circle, first on one foot then on the other. I was
dancing right behind a stout woman and Frank Rupert was in front
of her. I knew Frank was shy and nervous about the whole thing, so
I reached around and poked him in the ribs. He jumped and looked
behind. The stout lady laughed and giggled at him and he thought
she had done the poking. He didn’t look back anymore. After a few

times around I poked him again. This time Frank took off, left the

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