384 THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE BY LAND. 



as any we had passed before, but the men shouted 

 and whipped up, the horses galloped furiously, the 

 wagon whisked round the precipitous bluffs, and tore 

 down the steep descents in mad career. We reached 

 Yale before midnight, having been little more than 

 an hour doing the last fifteen miles of this fearful 

 road. 



Leaving this picturesque little town for the 

 second and last time the following morning, we took 

 steamer down the Fraser once more, and landed in 

 Victoria again on the 25th of November. 



