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 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 Murderers — The Shushwaps of Kamloops — 

 Contrast between them and the Indians East of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains — 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 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 Carious — 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. 



The snn was, liigli wlien we turned out on tlie 29tli 

 of August. After a substantial breakfast we crossed 

 over to the Fort, wliicli is situated on the opposite 

 side of the river. Here we were most hospitably 

 received bj Mr. Martin and Mr. Burgess, who were 

 in charge during the absence of the chief trader, 

 Mr. McKay. The first thing we did after our arrival 

 was to obtain a suit of clothes apiece from the store, 

 and proceed to the river, where we had a delightful 



