CHAPTER V. 



daylight in the morning we entered English 

 Bay, having crossed the strait during the 

 night. The sun climbed up over the snow- 

 mantled mountains into a cloudless sky, 

 and his rays were reflected from the limpid, 

 tranquil surface of the bay: 



" Blue, chrkly, deeply, beautifully blue," 



as if from the face of a mirror. A few 

 miles to the east, the triple-mouthed Frazer 

 empties its great volume of fresh, cold, glacier- 

 tinted fluid into the briny inland sea, and its 

 delta, level as a floor, stretches back many miles 

 on either side of the river to the foot-hills of the 

 Cascades. Thousands of ducks sat idly and lazily 

 in the water, sunning themselves, pruning their 

 feathers, and eyeing us curiously but fearlessly, 

 as we passed, sometimes within twenty-five or 

 thirty yards of them. A few geese crossed hither 

 and thither, in low, long, dark lines, uttering their 

 familiar . honk, honk; but they were more Wary 

 than their lesser cousins, and kept well out of range. 

 I asked the purser if there was any rule against 

 shooting on board, and he said no; to go down on 

 the after main deck, and shoot until I was tired. I 

 took my Winchester express from the case, went 

 below and opened on the dncks. They at once found 



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