. A sportsman's Eden [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. I'i; i â I ! â â hi-' i.^' il 144 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. tiie party of revenge which pursued him. At the AHson ranch no hunters could be found, so that I had to be content with my single inter- view with old Ephraim, and determined, if pos- sible, to get to Hope in time to catch the boat for Westminster. That sounds rather homely, does it not ? and livings the embankment and muddy Father Thames vividly before the mind's eye ; but the road from Piincetown to Hope is not quite so easy to travel as that from the Temple to W
. A sportsman's Eden [microform]. Hunting; Fishing; Chasse; Pêche sportive. I'i; i â I ! â â hi-' i.^' il 144 A SPORTSMAN'S EDEN. tiie party of revenge which pursued him. At the AHson ranch no hunters could be found, so that I had to be content with my single inter- view with old Ephraim, and determined, if pos- sible, to get to Hope in time to catch the boat for Westminster. That sounds rather homely, does it not ? and livings the embankment and muddy Father Thames vividly before the mind's eye ; but the road from Piincetown to Hope is not quite so easy to travel as that from the Temple to Westminstor, and I was assured that if I compassed the distance in two daj3, it would be as much as I could jDOssibly do, even without pack-horses. We camped one night at ' the sum- lAiit,' , at the top of the ridge which shuts off the Similkameen country from Hope and the Eraser. Here every year Winter sets up his first blockade, and already the first snow had follen, and the little burn was hard frozen, when at 4 I went to it for my morning tub. At breakfast we had a guest, a white man whom we passed the night before driving a couple of draught <.xen slowly over the mountains. He was a strano-e instance of the waifs and stravs you meet out V/est. Apparently a fairly \ve\]- educated man of thirty-five or so, he had gone in to the Similkameen country in the harvest-time with a well-bred American horse, which he bad i i 3'l I'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Phillipps-Wolley, Clive, 1854-1918. London : R. Bentley
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