To the northwardand they had been travelling northwas the Skeena River; on the west and south were the Babine range and waterways; eastward, over the Divide, was the Driftwood, and still farther eastward the Ominica range and the tributaries of the Finley.

CHAPTER SIX The creek which Thor was following was a tributary of the Babine, and he was headed pretty nearly straight for the Skeena.

They were now six or eight miles north of the timber in which the hunters had made their permanent camp, and headed for the lower tributaries of the Skeena.

With his head hunched low he travelled steadily northward, and a compass could not have marked out a straighter line for the lower waters of the Skeena.

From this point one creek flowed southward into the Tacla Lake country and the other northward into the Babine, which was a tributary of the Skeena.

The fish had not been able to reach the lake above, and they had waited too long after the flood-season to descend into the deeper waters of the Babine and the Skeena.

They would go on to the Skeena and possibly even up to the edge of the Yukon, and then swing eastward into the caribou country some time early in September, hitting back toward civilization on the prairie side of the Rockies.