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order that we might be able to start for the 

 Stewart River by that date and reach our hunting 

 ground by September 1st, when it was thought 

 that the moose and caribou would have their 

 antlers clear of velvet. 



Leaving England on July 14th, I reached 

 Dawson City on Augiist 8th, and might have 

 got there four days earlier had I not had to 

 wait two days in Vancouver for the next boat 

 to Skagway, and again for the same time at 

 Whitehorse. 



On my arrival in Dawson I was warmly 

 welcomed and most hospitably entertained by 

 my old friend Mr, J, B. Tyrrell, so well loiown 

 for the splendid work he has done in conjunction 

 with his brother, in exploring the inhospitable 

 wastes of Arctic Canada, I am not given to 

 paying undeserved compliments, but I can 

 truly say that I know of no more fascinating 

 book of travel than " Across the Sub-Aixtics of 

 Canada." It is the record, in most simple and 

 modest language, of a very arduous journey of 

 over three thousand miles in canoes and on 

 snow-shoes, undertaken by the brothers Tyrrell 



