. The Yukon Territory, its history and resources . s to have closed Campbells career in the A^ukon. Dr. Dawson presents the facts as follow^s:— The several ruined chinineys of Fort Selkirk still to beseen, with other traces on the ground, are in themselves evi-dence of the important dimensions and careful constructionof this post. The establishment consisted, I believe, in 1852,of one senior and one junior clerk and eight men. Theexistence of tliis ])ost in the centre of the inland or Wood-Indian couiilry had, how^ever, very seriously interfered witha lucrative and usurious trade which the Chi
. The Yukon Territory, its history and resources . s to have closed Campbells career in the A^ukon. Dr. Dawson presents the facts as follow^s:— The several ruined chinineys of Fort Selkirk still to beseen, with other traces on the ground, are in themselves evi-dence of the important dimensions and careful constructionof this post. The establishment consisted, I believe, in 1852,of one senior and one junior clerk and eight men. Theexistence of tliis ])ost in the centre of the inland or Wood-Indian couiilry had, how^ever, very seriously interfered witha lucrative and usurious trade which the Chilcoot and ChilkatIndians of Lynn Canal, on the coast, liad long l)een accus-tomed to carry on witli these people; acting as intermediariesbetween them and the wdiite traders on the Pacific and holdingthe passes at the headwaters of the Lewes with all the spiritof robber barons of old. In rumour Avas current thatthese people iiieilitatc(l ;i Iniil iipnn the |»ost, in consequence ofwhicli tlie fiiendlv local Indians staved bv it noarlv all. 0)ID o P3 o HISTORICAL SKETCH I summer of their own accord. It so happenofl, however, thatthey absented themselves for a conple of days, and at thatiinlncky moment the coast Indians arrived, Tlie ])Ost wasnnguarded by a stockade, and yiehlinc; to sheer force ofnumbers the occupants were expelled ;iiid the place was pill-aged, on the 21st August. Two days afterwards Campbell,having found the local Indians, returned with them andsurrounded the post, but the robbers had flown. Iking nowwithout means of support for the winter, Campbell set offdown stream to meet Mr. Stewart and the men who were onthe way back from Fort Yukon. He met them at the mouthof White river, and after turning them back with instructionsto arrange for wintering at Fort Yukon, set out himself in asmall canoe up the Pelly river, crossed to Frances lake,descended the Liard and arrived at Fort Simpson with thetidings of the disaster, amid drifting ice, on the 21st ofOct
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