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Mr. Chambers' store and with some difficulty I 

 got the men to start at 3 p.m. 



My two bottles of rum had long since been 

 exhausted though only taken in homoeopathic 

 doses. The difficulty was to get more. No 

 spirits were allowed to be sold in Alert Bay, a 

 passing steamer was the only chance, and fortun- 

 ately one was due before we started. 



My friend Mr. Halliday saved the situation. 

 He as a magistrate gave me a certificate that 

 the rum was required on medical grounds, 

 without which the Captain of the steamer 

 would have refused to part with any. I was 

 the envy of the entire Indian population as I 

 left the steamer's side with a bottle of rum 

 sticking out of each of my coat pockets. 



It was a lovely evening and though Mr. 

 Chambers had offered us a tow with his steam 

 launch, which runs to the head of the inlet 

 once a fortnight, if we would wait two days, 

 I preferred to get away rather than kick my 

 heels about Alert Bay. 



Rowing up to the mouth of the inlet with a 

 flowing tide we made about seven miles, and 

 camped at 6 o'clock on a rocky islet where we 

 found an ideal camping ground, near which 

 some Siwash Indians had settled for the summer 

 fishing. The scenery was superb. A back- 



