IN BKITISH COLUMBIA, AMONGST THE WILD 

 WHITE GOATS OF THE CASCADES. 



Victoria Nanaimo A Mining Population Comox My Irishman Hiring 

 Indians and Canoe Crossing to Texada A successful Pioneer Start 

 in our Canoe Mountainous Scenery Swimming Deer Mountains 

 of Bute Inlet Death of a wild White Groat Terrible Precipices 

 Home of the Gloats Difficult Mountaineering Granite Mountain 

 A wrecked Crew Chart of the Coast Waterfall Our Camp at 

 Fawn Bluff We meet a Tide Eip Angling for Salmon We kill 

 another Deer swimming. 



MY camping outfit lay piled in a corner, not of the 

 luggage-van, but of the baggage-car, in the more cor- 

 rect Continental phrase, attached to the daily train of 

 the only railway line, recently completed on Vancouver 

 Island, between Victoria and the great carboniferous 

 deposits round Nanaimo the splendid mines of coal 

 which will always be the island's principal source of 

 prosperity and wealth. 



A train starts from each end of the line at an early 

 hour of the morning, and completes its journey in four 

 hours, at an average speed of twenty miles an hour. 

 The construction of this railway, on which the traffic 

 appears insufficient to pay the working expenses, was 

 encouraged by the Canadian Government, with the 

 intention of aiding the " opening up " of the district. 

 The line was built by Mr. Dunsmuir, the coal million- 

 aire, and proprietor of the above-mentioned mines. 

 He is now the owner of vast tracts of forest lands, 

 under which lie hidden many a great seam of the 



