CONTENTS. XI 



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Various Routes from Tete 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 Mur- 

 derers — The Shushwaps of Kamloops — Contrast between them and the 

 Indians East of the Rocky Mountains — Mortality — The Dead Uuburied 

 • — Leave Kamloops — Strike the Wagon Road from the Mines — Astonish- 

 ment of the Assiniboine Family — The remarkable Terraces of the 

 Thompson and Eraser — 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 

 Caiions — 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, Van- 

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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 Laud 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 



CHAPTER XIX. 



William's Creek, Cariboo — The Discoverers — The Position and Nature 

 of the Gold Country — Geological Features — The Cariboo District — 

 Hunting the Gold up the Eraser to Cariboo — Conjectured Position of 

 the Auriferous Quartz Veins — Various kinds of Gold — Drawbacks to 

 Mining in Cariboo — The Cause of its Uncertainty — Extraordinary 

 Richness of the Diggings— " The Way the Money Goes" — Miners' 

 Eccentricities — Our Quarters at Cusheon's — Price of Provisions — The 

 Circulating Medium — Down in the Mines— Profits and Expenses— The 



" Judge " — Om- Fai^well Dinner — The Company — Dr. B 1 waxes 



Eloquent — Dr. B k's Noble Sentiments — The Evening's Entertain- 

 ment — Dr. B 1 retires, but is heai^i of again — General Confusion — 



The Party breaks up — Leave Cariboo — Boating do^vn the Eraser — 

 Camping Out— William's Lake— Catastrophe on the River — The Ex- 

 press Wagon — Difficulties on the Way — The Express-man Prophesies 

 his own Fate — The Road beyond Lytton — A Break-down — Furious 

 Drive into Yale — Victoria once more 362 



