AUTHOR’S FOREWORD ix

Possibly an apology should be made for the strain of
egotism running through this book, but I am not going
to make one. In a narrative of this sort, where personal
opinions and doings have to be continually told, the
personal pronoun must of necessity figure largely. Probably
with more experience in writing some of this might have
been eliminated. As it is I have done my best. |

I owe many thanks to numbers of my friends for advice
and encouragement in writing this book, and also for
permission to use some of the photographs, most of which,
as well as my own, have been taken within the past four
years. I am especially indebted to Mr. H. C. Duffus,
Mr. F. Ashton and Mr. Noel Robinson, of this city, for
their assistance in getting my manuscript into order.

A. Bryan WILLIAMS.

VANCOUVER; B.C.