| [The Kettle Falls: a Salmon Leap on the Upper Columbia] | vignette |
| [A group of Spokan Indians] | frontispiece |
| [Viviparous Fish] | to face page 106 |
| [Sturgeon-spearing] | 〃 〃 185 |
| [Sharp-tailed Grouse] | 〃 〃 300 |
| [North-Western Hummingbirds] | 〃 〃 328 |
| [Urotrichus] | 〃 〃 338 |
| [Aplodontia, or Ou-ka-la] | 〃 〃 346 |
ERRATA IN VOL. I.
- Page 88, line 19, for blubbering read blubbery
- 〃 105, 〃 20, for within read in
- 〃 157, 〃 2, for scenery on my left. The read scenery. On my left the
- 〃 158, 〃 23, for Nimkis read Nimkish
- 〃 164, 〃 9, for this cannon read these cannons
- 〃 177, 〃 13, for cauiare read caviare
- 〃 179, 〃 9, for are read is; and line 16, for fourteen read seven
- 〃 195, 〃 9, for three read one
- 〃 232, 〃 8, for pack and equipment read pack equipment
- 〃 268, 〃 5, heading to chapter, for The Desert Prong-horned read The Desert—Prong-horned
- 〃 296, 〃 8, for Reiney read Reiner
- 〃 349, 〃 12 for Actomys read Arctomys
VANCOUVER ISLAND
AND
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
CHAPTER I.
THE VOYAGE.
Whether Good Friday was more unlucky than Fridays usually are, in the estimation of sea-going men, I know not, but from England to St. Thomas we encountered a succession of headwinds and terrific seas. Of course it was the regular typical storm: ‘waves running mountains high, threatening instantaneously to engulph the struggling ship in a watery abyss; rent sails, creaking timbers, men lashed to the wheel (real tarry Ixions); screaming mothers, and remarkably sick papas and passengers,’—that ended in our case, as it usually does in all sensation sea-voyages. St. Thomas was arrived at in perfect safety, some few days after time.