By the treaty of Washington, the 49th pl. of lat. N. was to be the recognised Boundary Line, the course through the sea to be the centre of the Gulf of Georgia, and thence southward through the Channel which separates the continent from Vancouver Island, to the Straits of Juan de Fuca.

The duties of our Commission were to mark the Boundary line from the coast to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains.

May 1866.

CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.

[CHAPTER I.]Page
The Voyage1
[CHAPTER II.]
The Salmon: its haunts and habits36
[CHAPTER III.]
Fish Harvesting62
[CHAPTER IV.]
The Round-fish, Herrings, and Viviparous Fish97
[CHAPTER V.]
Sticklebacks and their Nests—The Bullhead—The Rock-cod—The Chirus—Flatfish121
[CHAPTER VI.]
Halibut Fishing—Dogfish—A Trip to Fort Rupert—Ransoming a Slave—A Promenade with a Redskin—Bagging a Chief’s Head—Queen Charlotte’s Islanders at Nanaimo142
[CHAPTER VII.]
Sturgeon-spearing—Mansucker—Clams175
[CHAPTER VIII.]
Mule-hunting Expedition from Vancouver Island to San Francisco—The Almaden Quicksilver Mines—Poison-oak and its Antidote199
[CHAPTER IX.]
Sacramento—Stockton—Californian Ground-squirrels—Grass-valley—Stage Travelling—Hydraulic Washings—Nevada—Marysville—Up the Sacramento River to Red Bluffs—A dangerous Bath221
[CHAPTER X.]
The Start from Red Bluffs—Mishaps by the Way—Devil’s Pocket—Adventure at Yreka—Field-crickets—The Californian Quail—Singular Nesting of Bullock’s Oriole245
[CHAPTER XI.]
Crossing the Klamath River—How to Swim Mules—Sis-kyoue Indians—Emigrant Ford—Trout Baling—A Beaver Town—Breeding-grounds of the Pelicans and various Water-birds—Pursued by Klamath Indians—Interview with Chief—The Desert—Prong-horned Antelopes—Acorns and Woodpeckers—Yellow-headed Blackbirds—Snake Scout—Arrival at Camp of Commission—End of Journal268
[CHAPTER XII.]
Sharp-tailed Grouse—Bald-headed Eagle—Mosquitos—Lagomys Minimus (Nov. Sp.)—Hummingbirds—Urotrichus300
[CHAPTER XIII.]
The Aplodontia Leporina. (Rich.)346

ILLUSTRATIONS
FOR
THE FIRST VOLUME.