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swallows, north and south, summer and winter, and their 

 poor old bones lying bleaching in thousands all over the 

 place, not one left ! 



The very last station we passed, there were several 

 huge piles of their bones which had been collected for 

 transport by the railway for manure. We have Mr. 

 White, the General Manager of the Canadian Pacific, 

 with us in the train, and he has strongly advised us to 

 stop a day at Banff just after entering the Rockies, and 

 will send us up on a freight train on Tuesday, loth 

 June, if we like. We have settled to do this, as it will 

 be well worth while. We shall stay there the 1 1 th, and 

 go to Glacier House on the Selkirks the 1 2th ; stay there 

 1 3th, and go to Vancouver i/jlh; get there 2.30 P.M., 

 i 5th ; leave the afternoon of 1 6th for Victoria by steamer ; 

 get there that evening ; stay a day there. These are all 

 nice short journeys and lots to see. I do not find it a 

 bit tiring travelling, and am fresher than when I left ; 

 never felt better in my life. Dear old Douglas takes 

 the greatest care of me, and is very fit too." 



" CALGARY, 

 Sunday r , ist June. 



Got here all right last night, and had a sleep at 

 the really very good Stone Hotel. This morning it 

 was raining and misty, a most unusual thing. We had 

 breakfast and a smoke in the kind of hall with cowboys 

 and ranchemen such a medley. No word from 

 Stimson (manager of one of the ranches near Calgary), 

 but we hear he is to be out to-morrow, and we shall 

 then certainly go up to see the ranches. I am sure 

 this is a place that is going to ' boom ' like mad, and 

 fortunes will be made here. We have been for a 

 drive all over the place with Mr. Alexander, who is a 

 real good fellow. I like him." 



