A trail-riding party leaving Tweedsmuir Lodge.

general effect is extraordinary. Every colour in the spectrum seems to
be comprised, from glowing reds and brilliant yellows to grey, lavender,
and violet, and these combine with the immaculate snow-fields and the
bright emerald of the mountain meadows to produce an effect almost
dramatic in its grandeur.

The peculiar nomenclature of which Tzeetsaytsul and Tsitsutl are
examples has given rise to interesting theories as to the origin of the
Coast Indian. The Indians of the British Columbia Coast are a race
apart. In some respects they show some small affinities with the Indians
of the Plains, but the Coast Mountains seem to have been as much an
ethnological as a geographical boundary, the Coast races being so dis-
tinctly Mongoloid as to lend strong colour to the tale that the Chinese
were the real discoverers of the Pacific North-west. Their expeditions
may have been deliberate—the legend runs to that effect—or wander-
ing Tartars may have drifted across the frozen Bering and settled on
the Coast, but the Indian of the “ salt-chuck ’—squat, deep-chested,
flat-featured, with narrow eyes and high cheek-bones—is the living
parallel of the men who rode with Ghenghiz Khan.

Thirteen.