Chapter XVII

Kamloops--We discover True Happiness--The Fort and
Surrounding Country--The Adventures of the Emigrants who
preceded us--Catastrophe at the Grand Rapid--Horrible
Fate of Three Canadians--Cannibalism--Practicability
of a Road by the Yellow Head Pass--Various Routes
from Tête Jaune Cache--Advantages of the Yellow Head
Pass, contrasted with those to the South--The Future
Highway to the Pacific--Return of Mr. McKay--Mr.
O’B. sets out alone--The Murderers--The Shushwaps of
Kamloops--Contrast between them and the Indians East of
the Rocky Mountains--Mortality--The Dead Unburied--
Leave Kamloops--Strike the Wagon Road from the Mines--
Astonishment of the Assiniboine Family--The remarkable
Terraces of the Thompson and Fraser--Their Great Extent:
contain Gold--Connection with the Bunch-grass--The Road
along the Thompson--Cook’s Ferry--The Drowned Murderer--
Rarity of Crime in the Colony--The most Wonderful Road
in the World--The Old Trail--Pack-Indians--Indian Mode
of catching Salmon--Gay Graves--The Grand Scenery of
the Cañons--Probable Explanation of the Formation of the
Terraces--Yale--Hope and Langley--New Westminster--Mr.
O’B. turns up again--Mount Baker--The Islands of the Gulf
of Georgia--Victoria, Vancouver Island 322

CHAPTER XVIII.

Victoria--The Rush there from California--Contrast to San
Francisco under similar Circumstances--The Assiniboines
see the Wonders of Victoria--Start for Cariboo--Mr.
O’B. and The Assiniboine are Reconciled--The former
re-establishes his Faith--Farewell to the Assiniboine
Family--Salmon in Harrison River--The Lakes--Mr.
O’B.’s Triumph--Lilloet--Miners’ Slang--The “Stage” to
Soda Creek--Johnny the Driver--Pavilion Mountain--The
“Rattlesnake Grade”--The Chasm--Way-side Houses on the
Road to the Mines--We meet a Fortunate Miner--The Farming
Land of the Colony--The Steamer--Frequent Cocktails--The
Mouth of Quesnelle--The Trail to William’s Creek--A Hard
Journey--Dead Horses--Cameron Town, William’s Creek 351