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to secure these papers. The first two were simply receipts of some 

 dried meat and fish, but the third one was unique in its way 

 and suggestive. It read in this manner : " This old scoundrel 

 wishes me to give him a certificate of character. He has been 

 trjnng to starve and murder me all winter. — Robert Campbell." 

 These papers were sent to Mr. Campbell, and it was amusing to 

 find some time afterwards that, at a banquet given to him in 

 Montreal, it was reported that these papers were found by Mr. 

 Chief Factor McFarlane on the Skeena River. 



Lieutenant Schwatka, commissioned by the U. S. Govern- 



ABANDONED POST (Toad River, Liard) 



ment, v/ent over what is now known as the Dyea Pass, descended 

 the Lewis River to its junction with the Pelly at Fort Selkirk, 

 and thence on to the coast. He ignored the names of places 

 given by Mr. Campbell years before, and in his book coolly 

 alluded to Mr. CarnpbeU in these words : " A man named 

 Campbell is said to have passed here some years ago." 



Mr. Campbell in his travels and explorations had not a 

 better instrument than a pocket compass to enable him to take 

 ohserva-tions, and as an evidence of his accuracy, it ma}" be stated 

 that the map produced from his notes and delineations by Mr. 

 Arrowsmith, London, Englan:!, varies but little from the best 



