Hornby didn’t go to Edmonton quite as soon as he expected that spring. First of all, he made a spring hunt with a man called Stevens, who, incidentally, had spent the previous winter driving the mail dog train from Fort McMurray to Fort Smith. This was not a long trip, only lasting about two months and was made by canoe from Hill Island Lake where there was supposed to be a big find of silver to ? Lake and into the Taltsoy River from which the trip lay across country to Fort Smith.
At one point they came to some bad rapids. Each man left it to the other to decide their procedure and as neither would appear over cautious, they decided to run them.
Everything was left in the canoe—a very foolhardy
