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3 stranger dressed in shabby black He has a kind of unnerved drooping look his shoulders coming together his toes his knees
the two ends of his vertebral column, something like a withering leaf in hot sunshine. Poor fellow he looks at our ship as
if he wanted to go again to the mines to try his luck. And here comes two Indian women a little girl trotting after them,
They seem as if they were coming aboard, but turn aside at the edge of the wharf descend rickety stairs to their canoe tied
to a pile beneath the wharf. Now they reappear with change of illegible the little girl is carrying a bundle something to
eat? or sell or sit on. Yonder comes a typical John Bull Grand in size style Carmen in countenance, abdominous showing a fine
tight curve from chin to knee when seen in profile yet benovelent withal 00941 1 On board the California 10 A.M. Aug
4th 1880. Dear Louie we are still lying alongside the wharf at Victoria. it seems a leak was discovered in one of the water
tanks that had to be mended the result was that we could not get off on the 7 o clock tide last night. Victoria seems a dry
dignified half idle town supported in great part by government fees. Every erect or more than erect back leaning? man has
an office carries himself with that peculiar aplomb that all the Hail B illegible people are so noted for. The wharf harbor
stir is very mild. The steamer Princess Louise lies alongside ours getting ready for the trip to New Westminister on Fraser
River. The Hudsons Bay Company s steamer Otter? , a queer old tubby craft left for the N. last night. A few sloops plungers
boats are crawling about the harbor or lying at anchor doing or dreaming a business nobody knows Yonder comes an Indian Canoe
with its one unique sail calling up memories illegible