Again in the case of names, take one example. Different authorities refer to the ubiquitous McKay as Robt., Alex, Dan, Joseph. Now there may have been all these McKays in the Oregon service, for the McKays of the fur trade were legion. But the McKay, who led the South Brigade, was one and the same and only Tom McKay, son of Mrs. McLoughlin’s first husband. Another error--it is said this McKay took cruel part in the Seven Oaks massacre. To say that Tom McKay, who from the time of his father’s death hated Indians from the marrow of his bones, took part in a massacre of white men--is simply absurd. As a matter of fact, this Tom McKay must have been about ten years old at that time. He certainly was present; but I should be reluctant to believe that a boy of that age fought and killed a full grown H. B. C. soldier. A hundred such discrepancies occur in the California story, which space forbids my pointing out, but where I have departed from old authorities, I have been guided by H. B. C. manuscripts. For instance, all authorities say H. B. C. trappers were not in California before 1835; yet I read fifteen hundred pages of their wanderings there, before 1828. * * * * * Okanogan is spelled as many ways as it has letters. I have spelled it the way it is pronounced--O-kan-og-an. I need not explain such place names as Okanogan, Kamloops, Nicola are from Indian tribes. * * * * * In H. B. C. House are simply tons of MSS. bearing on McLoughlin, which I did not go over because they deal with the story where I leave off--namely where the history of the H. B. C. becomes the history of the pioneer and the colonist. He, who takes up the story where I leave off, will need to spend both time and money on transcripts of these folios. There are literally tons. * * * * * The descriptions of the fur brigades are taken from the journals of the leaders and of the missionaries who accompanied them. * * * * * Bancroft has been accused of telling his legends too dramatically. How could the legends be anything but dramatic? It was a dramatic life day and night all the year round. * * * * * Two or three places, I have not given the names of the factors who succeeded each other directly, skipping nonentities, or men, who ruled for only a few months, for instance, McDonald and Manson at Langley before Yale. In H. B. C. Archives is a very full account of these Fraser River forts. Also it has been impossible to give the founding of the coast forts chronologically. Rupert and Nanaimo both came after the abandonment of McLoughlin Fort, and there were two Fort Simpsons. * * * * * A tragic story attaches to Paul Fraser, son of Simon, which space forbids giving. It will be found in Morice’s “New Caledonia.”