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1 letterhead Victoria, B.C. Aug 3d 1880 3.45. P.M. Dear Louie, The Vancouver roses are out of bloom hereabouts but I
may possibly find some near Naniamo? . I mailed you a letter yesterday which you will probably receive with this. Arriving
at Esqu illegible lt we hired a carriage driven by a sad eyed sad lipped negro to take us with all our baggage to Victoria
some 3 miles distant. The horses were also of melancholic aspect lean clipper-built in general but the way they made the fire
fly from the glacial gravel would have made Saint Jose his jet bu illegible hide in the dust. By illegible of much blunt?
praise of his team he put them to their wiry springsteel metal we passed everything on the road with a whir cab cart? carriage
carryall. We put up at the Duard House had a square or cubical meal. Put on a metallic co illegible to the land lord on account
of the money experience we carried, nearly scared him out of his dignity made him give us good rooms. At 6.45 P.M. The California
arrived, we went aboard had a chat with Hughes the purser. He at once enquired whether I had anyone in margin: 00940