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of grub, one of the axemen goes hunting to get some fresh meat & brings back two deer.

May 12th. Raining hard all morning, in afternoon we venture out and run our line down to Fishers River which we have to cross, it is a wide river and one we won't reach across. So we'll have to fall one on either side and lock them as they fall, it is also swift so if one falls in with a pack on his back, the odds will be greatly against his getting out safely it is a long job falling trees for the bridge so leave it until after supper.

May 13th. We cross river and run our line on one mile before we leave off at 5 p.m., we have a tolerably good bridge across being trees about 12 inches in diameter: one feels a great tendency to fall off in crossing a river in this manner as the

BC Archives, AAAA1452 File 1 / OGILBY, William Law / Diary, 27 Mar to 8 Oct 1892.