122 SPORT IN VANCOUVER 



Needless to say, regardless of all game laws, the 

 men had several shots at the beaver without 

 doing him any harm. 



Arriving at our old camp at Keogh Lake we 

 found the cedar still smouldering. Having 

 made a new raft we reached camp at the south 

 end of the lake, just as the sky clouded up, 

 evidently preparing for another downpour. 



The shores of the Lake were swampy and it 

 was with difficulty we found a place to camp. 

 It rained that night as if it had never rained 

 before. 



Lansdown now jacked up and I find the 

 following note in my diary : — 



" Smith still ill and Lansdown now sick 

 and very sorry for himself — query, too much 

 wapiti meat — we are a sorry crew, but my knee 

 is free from pain for the first time since the 

 accident occurred." 



In all the discomforts I was to be " up 

 against," none of my friends had mentioned 

 the possibility of bad weather in September. 



August at the Campbell River had been 

 simply an ideal climate, but from August 30th 

 to September 26th, it had rained fifteen days 

 out of the twenty-eight, and by rain I don't 

 mean showers, which were common and did 

 not count, but a steady downpour which 

 lasted all day, and made marching through the 



