They're a lazy lot of mongrels, Towaskook's people, who carve things out of wood, to worship.

Still, he _might_.

I'll send up a good man with you to influence him, and you'd better take along a couple hundred dollars in supplies as a further inducement." The man was a half-breed.

Three days later they left Hudson's Hope, with Baree riding amidships.

The mountains loomed up swiftly after this, and the second day they were among them.