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thing from being burnt, but morning found the 

 tree still a roaring pillar of fire. 



In Eastern Canada in the fall of the year 

 such an occurrence might have set the whole 

 country ablaze and resulted in one of those 

 tracts of burnt country called " brules " so 

 common through that country. While on 

 the Campbell River we heard of great forest 

 fires taking place on the Mainland, but in the 

 north of Vancouver Island I saw no sign of a 

 burnt forest, for it was too saturated to burn. 



