The Mate of the Vancouver — page 137: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ner her “ee, vee fe 8 - ‘ at ii % + whe . ey? ee it oe ran jeg ‘¢ ide’ " yh WEA " a yd" aa Ne, tf rig es i oe rs “4 Te Wa a RBH a i ee ’ “Das 2S : ,% A GOLDEN LINK. , 125 fall of snow would make traveling almost impossible. Mac walked on in somber silence, reflecting doubtless that it was his obstinacy which had brought us _ into trouble, a thing I confess I was not so forgiving as to forget, though merciful It had taken us three days to come up from the enough not to remind him of it. Columbia, and it seemed barely possible under the circumstances to retrace our steps in the same time, even although the horses were not so much burdened and there was not so much hard climbing to be done. But I could see Mac was bent on getting out, and he traveled without more rest than we were absolutely compelled to take on account of the animals. As for myself, I confess that though I had traveled that same trail twice, yet so greatly was it altered by the snow that I should have lost my way in the first mile, For mountaineering and the knowledge of locality are things not to be cad SRE hi aU ast atte BS VE 6 SOS na Fi gh By ay grag Re ee SF Rae gi at eG 3 ®, > oP ef , 3 iy, — oa i > st ; > , is 24) eee Ae. nha : oN ahaa re wet ww we Ee 4 x | 7 ees : f ‘ et aay a : Sry, a ' ¢ -