CHAPTER IX.

An Early Morning Climb--A Thousand Feet Above the Lake--Fresh Deer Signs in Sight of the Hotel--Three Indians Bring in Three Deer--"Douglass Bill" Proves as Big a Liar as Other Indians--Heading off a Flock of Canvas Backs--A Goodly Bag of these Toothsome Birds--A Siwash Hut--A Revolting Picture of Dirt, Filth, Nakedness, and Decayed Fish--Another Guide Employed--Ready on Short Notice--Off for the Mountain.