PREPARATIONS 5

set aside for the protection of the game, with the result
that in the more densely settled districts many species
of wild game are now approaching total extinction.
It looks as though all the good work done in past years
by Mr. Bryan Williams and his deputies has been in
vain.

Mr. Williams received me with the greatest kindness
in his little office, and furnished me with all possible
information and advice. He specially recommended
the Cassiar, a district far to the north and teeming
with all kinds of game, where in contrast to most other
hunting districts, the sportsman might secure during
one trip specimens of all of the various kinds of big
game, such as Moose, Caribou, Bears, Mountain Sheep,
and Goats.

According to Mr. Williams a shooting expedition
to the Cassiar district would mean considerable expense,
but on the other hand, one might be fairly certain of a
good and representative bag. I quickly made an
estimate of the minimum of funds required to take
me back to Norway, and found that with care I could
just manage this trip to the Cassiar. Before again
leaving Vancouver the trip seemed assured.

Mr. Williams with great kindness promised to
write to the trader in Telegraph Creek, a small place
on the Upper Stickine River, asking him to arrange
for Indian guides, pack-horses, etc., and as the shooting
season did not commence till September Ist, there
was plenty of time for me to make my further arrange-
ments.

I spent some time fishing for salmon in the Vedder
River on the mainland, and while staying there I met
a young Englishman, who urged me to join him at