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The North-West Passage by land: Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky MountainsMilton, William Fitzwilliam, Viscount

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The North-West Passage by land: Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains

Name: The North-West Passage by land: Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Milton, William Fitzwilliam, Viscount

Milton, William Fitzwilliam, Viscount

British Columbia -- Description and travel; Northwest, Canadian -- Description and travel

On a Trail Again--The Effect on Ourselves and the Horses--
      The Changed Aspect of the Country--Wild Fruits--Signs of
      Man Increase--Enthusiastic Greeting--Starving again--Mr.
      O’B. finds Caliban--His Affectionate Behaviour to him--
      The Indians’ Camp--Information about Kamloops--Bartering
      for Food--Clearwater River--Cross the Thompson--The
      Lily-berries--Mr. O’B. and The Assiniboine fall out--
      Mr. O’B. flees to the Woods--Accuses The Assiniboine of
      an attempt to Murder him--Trading for Potatoes--More
      Shushwaps--Coffee and Pipes--Curious Custom of the
      Tribe--Kamloops in Sight--Ho! for the Fort--Mr. O’B.
      takes to his Heels--Captain St. Paul--A Good Supper--
      Doubts as to our Reception--Our Forbidding Appearance--
      Our Troubles at an End--Rest                                   311


  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.

The North-West Passage by land: Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains

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