Here's a supposed-to-be reliable chart of this region, which I paid a man a good sum to get up for me; but already I've found it more or less crooked, and have begun to lose confidence in its accuracy.

Perhaps you could show up the faults, and set me right, so that if the time ever comes when I have to depend on the thing I won't get astray; for truth to tell it would be no fun to find oneself lost on these upper reaches of the great Saskatchewan.

Sit right down here, and squint your optic over this set of hen-tracks, made by the halfbreed, Dubois." "Dubois, you say--why, I know the fellow well.

He ought to be able to make a decent map of this country, for he's spent many years roaming over it, though I think he was more concerned about stealing some honest trapper's pelts than anything else.

Why, see here, he's made an awful botch of this thing right around this quarter, where he certainly knows every foot of ground.