Vili CASSIAR

the standard work and is, I believe, the only official
report that covers the region as far north as the
Yukon Boundary.

This book represents a year’s sojourn in the
central and northern parts of the Cassiar (1930-3 i)
The description of places and events is as accurate
as memory allows, and nothing has been invented
or exaggerated. Much, however, has been omitted,
and much that occurred so frequently as to become
commonplace has been introduced only once in
the following pages. I have not presented to the
reader a detailed account of travel, nor have I
burdened him with historical or geographical data;
these things have remained in my note-book. My
aim has been to distil from a mass of particular ex-
periences the general spirit of the Cassiar, and so to
arrange and select actual impressions that they be-
come significant and typical of the country. The
result, if I have succeeded, is a portrait-sketch of
the Cassiar as it is today and as it will remain until
the discovery of hidden wealth brings railways and
mills and the clash and clatter of industry among
these mountain ranges.

M. CONWAY TURTON

August 1932