is situated in the heart of really magnificent mountain scenery, so
secluded and remote that one readily grasps its significance as a “ place
of refuge ” in the long-past days of tribal warfare, when the high prows
of raiding Haidas and Tsimpseans appeared in the quiet waters of North
Bentinck Arm.

In the Indian dialect, Bella Coola means “ beautiful valley,” and
Bella Coola itself is extremely attractive, in a grandly-scenic setting,
enhanced by the picturesque figures of the range-riders from the im-
mediate interior and the Indians on their clattering ponies. The Indians
here, it might be added, are much less sophisticated and more entirely
natural than is commonly the case.

Union Steamships, Limited, maintain a regular service between Van-
couver and Bella Coola.

Extremely interesting rock-paintings can be seen about 5 miles
south-west from Mackenzie’s Rock. Very probably these defined the
territorial areas of the Bella Coola and Bella Bella Indians, and near this
spot Mackenzie was forced, by the fears of his Bella Coola guides, to
retrace his steps to the Rock.

Three miles east of Stuie is a huge rock weighing several hundred
tons, which was used as a mile-post in the ancient days; and 1 mile
farther on is another painted rock, probably the scene of ritualistic
initiations by the tribal medicine-men, as the only available water there-
abouts is from a nearby spring. One hundred yards to the west of this
rock is an intact rock sepulchre, one of the very few of its kind in
British Columbia. Indeed, the whole area is rich in its associations and
intensely interesting to the student of Indian lore and archeology.

Union Steamship S.S. “ Cardena.”