19/38 All they were waiting for was the breaking up of the ice, when the barges would start up the Athabasca, which meant _south_; while he, in his big war canoe, would head up the Peace, which meant _west_. He was going as far as Hudson's Hope, and this was within two hundred and fifty miles of where David wanted to go. He proved that fact by digging up an old Company map. David's heart beat an excited tattoo. |