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