In H. B. C. House are simply tons of MSS. bearing on McLoughlin, which I did not go over because they deal with the story where I leave off—namely where the history of the H. B. C. becomes the history of the pioneer and the colonist. He, who takes up the story where I leave off, will need to spend both time and money on transcripts of these folios. There are literally tons.
The descriptions of the fur brigades are taken from the journals of the leaders and of the missionaries who accompanied them.
Bancroft has been accused of telling his legends too dramatically. How could the legends be anything but dramatic? It was a dramatic life day and night all the year round.
Two or three places, I have not given the names of the factors who succeeded each other directly, skipping nonentities, or men, who ruled for only a few months, for instance, McDonald and Manson at Langley before Yale. In H. B. C. Archives is a very full account of these Fraser River forts. Also it has been impossible to give the founding of the coast forts chronologically. Rupert and Nanaimo both came after the abandonment of McLoughlin Fort, and there were two Fort Simpsons.
A tragic story attaches to Paul Fraser, son of Simon, which space forbids giving. It will be found in Morice’s “New Caledonia.”