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of April 6 and April 23, 1859; it will be seen that all his distances
are exaggerated and at times the sequence is not observed.

The notes have been made as brief as possible; no attempt has
been made to include complete biographical sketches, nor complete
historical information; and in many instances the printed and easily
accessible sources have merely been indicated. Where quotations have
been included it will usually be found that they are from manuscript
or other material not readily obtainable. The Parliamentary Papers,
in four parts, known as “ Papers relating to British Columbia,
1859-62,” area perfect mine of information on the subjects dealt with
in the correspondence; but to have included all references to those
papers was quite impossible within practical limitations of space.

The hope is entertained that this volume will serve to make more
widely known the wealth of basic material relating to the story of the
province that is preserved in the archives ; that these letters, which are
but the merest fragments of the correspondence of the mining days,
will be found useful to the student of the history of British Columbia;
and that their perusal will aid the reader to visualize the conditions
under which the colony came into existence in those early days—“ the
days of old, the days of gold.”

F. W. HOWAY.