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smoking, and drinking, and at tlie last lie was espe- 

 cially great ; not a house did lie pass without two or 

 three drinks with all comers. But in justice to 

 Johnny, who was a very good fellow in his way, it 

 must be stated that he assured us that he was gene- 

 rally a " total abstainer," but occasionally drank for 

 a change, and then " went in for liquor bald-headed." 

 He was in the latter phase during our brief acquaint- 

 ance. 



The road, well made and smooth, and in many 

 places eighteen feet wide, crosses the Eraser by a 

 ferry a short distance beyond Lilloet, and then winds 

 along steep hill -sides up the valley of the Fraser to 

 the north for twenty miles. At Pavilion Valley it 

 turns to the north-east, to the foot of Pavilion 

 Mountain, where it ascends 1,500 feet by a rapid 

 zigzag. Here our team, now reduced to four, were 

 quite unequal to the task before them, and we clam- 

 bered up the steep on foot. From the top we had a 

 good view to the south-east, and the curious forma- 

 tion of the hill-side opposite attracted our attention. 

 Near the top of the hill was a hollow, and the surface 

 below a succession of waving swells, growing larger 

 and larger towards the bottom. It seemed as if 

 the hollow was an extinct crater, from which the 

 molten lava had long ago flowed down in a billowy 

 stream, and as if this, arrested at the instant of its 

 passage, had now become the grass-grown slope 

 before us. We had no time to go across and 

 examine it carefully, but continued our way over 

 the grassy table-land on the top of Pavilion Moun- 



