16 SPORT IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Always kind and helpful, it was largely due to Teit,
besides Bryan Williams, that my trip turned out such
a success in every way. From him I got a lot of most
valuable advice as to the best way of handling the
Indians, the choice of provisions, etc.

Teit had several times been to Telegraph Creek to
study the Tahltan Indians of the Upper Stickine, and
on this trip he was to guide an American sportsman,
Mr. Sargent, on a shooting expedition, Mr. Sargent
also being of our party on board.

In this manner the days passed quickly and pleas-
antly, while the steamer wound its way northwards
through all those beautiful sounds and past open
stretches of coast where the great ocean rollers tumbled
us about. This route-along the Alaskan coast, the
so-called “Inside Passage,”’ is really a most wonderful
one as regards natural scenery, and reminded me not
a little of the Norwegian “skjergaard,”’ or belt of
islands which stretches all along the Norwegian coast.

There was this difference, however, that here the
islands and the mainland were covered with dense
forests of cedar and spruce right down to the water’s
edge. Here and there through the gaps between the
islands one got glimpses of the Cascade mountains to
the east, with their lofty snow-covered peaks and
glaciers.

I find the following notes in my diary about the
trip. August 17th :—

““Awoke to the most glorious sunshine and a fresh
“breeze. Far to the west, through the smoke of many
‘forest fires, I can see the snowy mountains of the in-
“terior of Vancouver Island. Where I passed with the
“steamer some days ago on my return from Campbell