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and destroyed by the Indians of tlie interior, 

 who Tip to that time had been in the habit of 

 trading themselves with the coast tribes, and 

 looked upon the white men, not Avithout reason, 

 as interlopers. To their credit these savages 

 made no attempt to murder the white people 

 in the fort but allowed them to return to the 

 coast. 



The Indians we saw in the village near 

 the mission station were all living in well 

 built log cabins, and were all wearing European 

 dress. With one exception the men were 

 all very short, though strongly built, and in 

 feature most of them were very Mongolian in 

 appearance. Some of the women, dressed in 

 print dresses, with bright coloured shawls over 

 their shoulders and their heads swathed in 

 cotton handkerchiefs, reminded me strongly of 

 South African Hottentots. 



After taking a load of wood on board for fuel 

 at Selkirk we steamed into the mouth of the 

 Pelly River the same evening, but soon getting 

 into shallow water bumped on some stones, and 

 knocking a hole in the bottom of the boat, had 



