Notes of our trip across British Columbia . there clinging to the side of Look-outPoint. She informed us that she was so fascinated with it that shehad been paying daily visits for a week, and imagined herself in aBerlin theatre, peopling the scene with actors and spectators. Weregretted much not having more time at our command to seemore of it. We returned to the Norris Geyser Basin, arriving thereabout five oclock, and had plenty of time to see this valley boiling,over in every direction with Geysers, hot and sulphurous sprmgs^and steam issuing from the ground with a loud hissing noise as fr
Notes of our trip across British Columbia . there clinging to the side of Look-outPoint. She informed us that she was so fascinated with it that shehad been paying daily visits for a week, and imagined herself in aBerlin theatre, peopling the scene with actors and spectators. Weregretted much not having more time at our command to seemore of it. We returned to the Norris Geyser Basin, arriving thereabout five oclock, and had plenty of time to see this valley boiling,over in every direction with Geysers, hot and sulphurous sprmgs^and steam issuing from the ground with a loud hissing noise as froman ocean steamer. No scene could be more suggestive of DantesInferno. On our return to the hotel we found the squadron ofUnited States Cavalry (which had been in charge of the Park) en-camped, making ready for their departure. The season is now over,and their watchful care is no longer required. We met the officerin command at the hotel. He was curious to know what the Cana-dians thought about annexation. We told him that we thought they. 29 -were quite content to leave well alone, that we had perfectfreedom, with security; that our laws, which were enacted by thewill of the people, were administered with justice and purity by ourcourts. That our judges, appointed for life by the Crown, and notelected, were men of ability and high character, that Canada pos-sessed great possibilities, and that we had faith in our ability todevelop them. He, like most Americans, believe that they have agrievance against Canada in harboring their boodlers. I pointedout to him that if we harbored their rascals, they, in like manner, har-bored ours ; that it the present state of our international laws wasdefective, the sin lay at their door not ours ; that we have been allalong ready to make a treaty, and as a matter of fact a treaty had beennegotiated by one of their ministers accredited to the British govern-ment in London, but their Senate refused to ratify it. He seemed tobe quite unaware of
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