CHAPTER I 



TO VANCOUVER ISLAND 



FROM the day I read in the Field Sir Richard 

 Musgrave's article, " A seventy-pound salmon 

 with rod and line," and located the river as 

 the Campbell River, I determined that should 

 the opportunity arise, I, too, would try my 

 luck in those waters. 



Subsequent articles in the Field, which 

 appeared from time to time, only increased 

 my desire, and the summer of 1908 found me 

 in a position to start on the trip to which I 

 had so long looked forward. 



Living in Egypt, the land of eternal glare 

 and sunshine, I counted the days till I could 

 rest my eyes on the ever-green forests of 

 Vancouver Island. 



My intention was to arrive in Vancouver 

 about the end of July, spend the month of 

 August, when the great tyee salmon run, at 

 the Campbell River, and pass September, 

 when the shooting season begins, in hunting 

 for wapiti in the primeval forests which clothe 



the north of Vancouver Island. 

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