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That was why the Dominion of Canada adhered to the Anglo-Japanese Treaty when it was renewed in 1913, and why the Japanese battleship Asama, after grounding on the coast of Lower California, was refitted at Esquimault. At that naval station in 1914 Canada had only one small cruiser of 3,600 tons, the Rainbow, used more for revenue purposes than for any idea of defence or offence.
The captain and the first mate were keeping a sharp lookout on the bridge, for they were approaching San Francisco. The steamer had taken a cargo of machinery and rails on board at Esquimault for San Francisco, as was duly set forth in the ship's papers. In Esquimault, too, the second mate enlisted, though the captain was not particularly eager to take a man who carried his arm in a sling.
We arrived in Esquimault Harbor, three miles from Victoria, on the evening of the fourth day, and drove to the town through a magnificent forest of Douglas spruce, with an undergrowth in open spots of oak, madrone, hazel, dogwood, alder, spiraea, willow, and wild rose, and around many an upswelling moutonne rock, freshly glaciated and furred with yellow mosses and lichens.
The newspaper and specimen of gold dust referred to in Captain Prevost's letter are also enclosed. Herman Merivale, Esquire, Colonial Office. Enclosures Number 12. H.M.S. "Satellite," Esquimault, Vancouver's Island, May 7, 1858.
While there are harbours enough on the Atlantic, though none equal to Halifax, there is no available harbour at all fit for the great Pacific trade, from Acapulco to our harbour of Esquimault, on Vancouver's Island, except San Francisco and that is in the wrong place, and is, in many states of the wind, unsafe and inconvenient.
"I have been to Gaspe, and west to Esquimault, and in England, but I have never seen such as those," he said. Race and primitive man spoke there. She laughed. "Come closer, little man." He did so. She suddenly rose, dropped her hands on his shoulders, and kissed his cheek. "Now bring the horse, and I will kiss him too." Did she think she could rouse Gaston by kissing his servant?
"I have been to Gaspe, and west to Esquimault, and in England, but I have never seen such as those," he said. Race and primitive man spoke there. She laughed. "Come closer, little man." He did so. She suddenly rose, dropped her hands on his shoulders, and kissed his cheek. "Now bring the horse, and I will kiss him too." Did she think she could rouse Gaston by kissing his servant?
Between the magnificent harbour of Halifax, on the Atlantic, open throughout the year for ships of the largest class, to the Straits of Fuca, opposite Vancouver's Island, with its noble Esquimault inlet, intervene some 3,200 miles of road line.
In about little more than three weeks they entered Fuca Straits, up which they ran for about sixty miles, with magnificent scenery on both sides, though desolate in the extreme, till they reached Esquimault Harbour, in Vancouver's Island; about three miles from which stands Victoria, the capital.
He was a quiet and unobtrusive Englishman, with the steadiness of gaze and decisiveness of speech which characterized those who command at sea, and had discovered that he had, notwithstanding the difference in their vocations, much in common with rancher Alton. "Yes," he said. "It is very good of you, and if we stay at Esquimault I will come up and spend a day or two among the deer.
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