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The skins of bears, wolves, beavers, otters, fishers, martens, lynxes, panthers, wolverine, reindeer, moose, elk, wild goats, sheep, foxes, squirrels, and many others of our "poor earth-born companions and fellow mortals" may here be found. Vancouver is the southmost and the largest of the countless islands forming the great archipelago that stretches a thousand miles to the northward.
As for the confidence Vancouver had once made to John, it was another instance of his littleness. At the time when Vancouver was anxious to marry Sybil Brandon, John Harrington was very intimate at the house, and was, in Vancouver's opinion, a dangerous rival; at all events he felt that the contest was not an agreeable one, nor altogether to his own advantage.
Charles H. Tout, of Vancouver, records that after attending a few séances with some friends he felt a strong impulse to turn medium himself, and assume a foreign personality. Yielding to the impulse, he discovered, much to his amazement, that without losing complete control of his consciousness, he could develop a secondary self that would impose on the beholders as a discarnate spirit.
"Only man of that name hereabouts. Lives out across the Narrows somewheres. Used to live here in Vancouver years ago but now he don't honor us much. Queer old skate! They say he's got some good Indian things, though if it's them you're after?" The professor ignored the question but pondered the information. "I think you are right. It must be the same person," he said.
At Portland we all united, and moving across the point between the Willamette and Columbia rivers, encamped opposite Fort Vancouver, on the south bank of the latter stream, on the farm of an old settler named Switzler, who had located there many years before.
He had two weeks' vacation due when it pleased him. And it pleased him to ask John P. as soon as he reached the office that very morning if it was convenient to the firm to do without him for the ensuing fortnight. Thompson went to Vancouver to spy out the land. He made no confidants. He went about the Terminal City with his mouth shut and his ears and eyes open.
"It's likely that we'll have Evelyn again in the fall," she said hastily. "It's a very small world, Mr. Vane." "It's a far cry from Vancouver to England," Vane replied. "How did you first come to know Chisholm?" Nairn answered him. "Our acquaintance began with business.
Opposite this was a large creek, which they called Seal River. The mountain which they had supposed to be the Mount Hood of Vancouver, now bore S. 85° E., about forty-seven miles distant.
"The stores on board the sloop were spoiled; I had to go on to Vancouver. But there are things to eat in my pack." "Hand it across. I haven't been faring sumptuously the last few days. No, sit still! I'm supple enough from the waist up." He proved it by the way he leaned to and fro as he opened the pack and distributed part of its contents among the cooking utensils.
It was addressed to Dr. Herbert Farr at Vancouver, and was merely a formal notice from a firm of English solicitors post-marked London a well-known firm, probably, from the address on their letterhead. "Dr. Herbert Farr, Vancouver, B. C. Dear Sir: As executors in the estate of Mrs.