tions. There was my valet on board,—with all my baggage, 
letters of credit, and, in fact, everything I had brought from 
home with me. It was absolutely a catastrophe, since miss¬ 
ing this boat meant that we could not make connections with 
the boat up the Stickine—our destination. What was more, 
that vessel makes only two trips a year. 
We ran back to the hotel. There through the kindness of 
Manager Humble, of the Empress, who accompanied us to the 
C. P. R. offices, we were able to jump into a motor-car and 
make a train for Nanaimo, on the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Rail¬ 
road, by fifteen minutes’ connection. From here, through the 
courteous assistance of Captain Troupe, manager of the Navi¬ 
gation Department of the C. P. R. at Victoria, we chartered the 
steamship Joan, and, sailing out at midnight, caught the Be¬ 
atrice on her way out from Vancouver at 2 A. M. Captain 
Troupe, after our departure from Victoria, had done some 
pretty tall hustling, it being necessary for him to get into tele¬ 
phonic communication with the captain of the Joan, and the 
captain of the Beatrice, and also in telegraphic communication 
with the purser of the Princess Victoria upon her docking 
at Vancouver,—giving the latter Kennedy’s instructions in re¬ 
gard to transferring our baggage to the Beatrice, etc. It is 
said that “All’s well that ends wellbut if either Little or 
myself dies before the age of three score and ten, I believe 
one reason for it can be put down to a certain few hours 
passed this day. 
The sea has been very calm; the scenery much the same 
as that along the Norwegian fjords;—perhaps somewhat less Aug. 22 d 
picturesque, however, and lacking the variety of color found 
along the Norwegian coast. Late in the day we passed 
Campbell River, the most noted place in the world for king- 
salmon fishing, and one of the few places where these fish 
are caught with rod and reel. 
There are several other shooting parties on board—Eng¬ 
lish, Austrian and American—the foreigners being rather in 
the majority. Some of them are quite noted sportsmen, 
among these J. G. Millais (son of the artist), an eminent 
authority and a writer of several books on natural history. 
Lieutenant Dalgish, R. N., and an Austrian, Oberlander by 
name, collecting for the Vienna Natural History Museum, 
are to be included in this list. 
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