Kazan knew that there was nothing to hunt, and they continued to travel all that night.

With dawn they struck a narrow swamp along the edge of the stream.

Here beavers had built a dam, and they were able to cross over into the green country on the opposite side.

For another day and another night they traveled westward, and this brought them into the thick country of swamp and timber along the Waterfound.
And as Kazan and Gray Wolf came from the west, there came from the Hudson's Bay post to the east a slim dark-faced French half-breed by the name of Henri Loti, the most famous lynx hunter in all the Hudson's Bay country.

He was prospecting for "signs," and he found them in abundance along the Waterfound.