"Good camp-place."

Then he turned to his wife.

"Mu-tu-o-to," he said, which the girl knew as the order to build a
fire. She was pleased that she understood this command, and it
encouraged her to continue the study of the native language.

While Kitty, with Jean's assistance, gathered some dry wood, and
lighted the fire, Sam erected a lean-to. Thus by the time darkness
enshrouded the land they were ready for the night. It was good to lie
down and rest after the march of the day, and Jean soon feel asleep.

Thus for several days they continued their journey, travelling by easy
stages. Jean was more accustomed now to the trail, and the stiffness
of the first two days had worn away. It was welcome news to her,
however, when Sam one night told her that by sundown on the morrow they
should be at the big river, the Wu-las-tukw.

"Oh, I am so glad," she fervently replied. Once on the noble St. John
it would seem almost home.

The next day they passed through a wonderful forest of great white
pines. Never had Jean seen anything like them. They were as straight
as arrows, and their tops seemed to her to reach the clouds drifting
overhead. Ere long she noticed that many of them bore the axe blaze,
and examining more closely, she saw the form of a broad arrow cut deep
into the bark. "What is that?" she asked.