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4 reliable, confidence-begetting, here just landed opposite our ship is a pile of hundreds of bears skins black brown from
Alaska brought here by the Otter . A few deer skins too wildcat wolverine. The Hudson Bay Co men are about them showing their
ownership. Ten minutes to twelve oclock. Let go that line there etc tells that we are about to move. Our steamer swings slowly
round heads for Nanaimo? . How beautiful the shores are How glacial yet how leafy. The days becomes calmer brighter everybody
seems happy. Our fellow passengers are Major Morris wife, whom I met last year; Judge Deady. A young Englishmen dreamy silent
old gray man like a minister. 8 P.M. We are entering Nanaimo? harbor 2 many O? of my last winters rambles among the icebergs.
The water is ruffled with a slight breeze, scarce enough for small white caps. clearer than the waters of most harbors, though
not without the ordinary drift of old bottles straw def illegible domestic animals. How rotten the piles of the wharf are
how they smell even in this cool climate. They are taking hundreds of barrels of molasses aboard for what purpose to delight
the Alaska younglings with lasses bread smear their happy chubby cheeks. Or to make cookies gingerbread? illegible , Whisky,
Indian, whisky. It will be bought by Ind 9/10ths of it more, they will give their hard-earned money for it their hard-caught
furs for it, take it far away along many a glacial channel inlet, make it into crazing poison. illegible too many a ton are
coming aboard to boil fry raise a watery cry. Alone on the wharf I see a lone