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the vessel out of her course into the mouth of Fox Channel on the home- 

 ward voyage, and some of those on board state their belief that he was 

 instructed to do so by interested parties. This fate of the Prince of Wales 

 may have been superinduced in the same way. C. R. T. 



While the Mail newspaper has been at work depreciating the 

 possibilities of the Hudson's Bay route, there has been no journal 

 in the Eastern Provinces sufficiently interested to defend it. The 

 result is that but few people, especially in Ontario, have the slightest 

 confidence in the practicability of the navigation of Hudson Strait. 

 The Mail's opposition is no doubt justified in its own estimation, 

 but that estimation is greatly prejudiced and is therefore unreliable. 

 There are those who think they see the hand of the Ottawa Govern- 

 ment between the lines of these newspaper editorials, but I am not 

 inclined to that opinion. The Government have taken the question 

 in hand, and are acting, no doubt, in good faith. 



