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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. ata ilure, 3 2X 12 3 1 2 3 4 • e i||iJ|H«WWiM The second Paper lead was — 2. British Columbia. Joitnieys in the JJisfricts horderiiig on the Firiser, Thojnpson, and Ilavnson Rivers. By Lieiits. Mayne, k.n., and Palmer, r.e., and Chief-Justice M. Begdie. Communicated by the Duke of Newcastle, Colonial OfBce. The above coininnnications are written at considerable length, and are so laigely occupied with the description of nnnierons but essential details, that it is impossible to do justice to them in so short an abstract as the following, especially without the assistance of a map. Lieutenant IVdnier was ordered by Colonel Moody to make an engineering reconnaissanoo of the neighbourhood of Fraser l^iver. He reports minutely on the steps that should be taken at each point of his route in order to make a good ct)mniunicatit)n for cart or boat traffic. ITe has fixed the geographical positions of numerous places, and he gives a detailed account of all the patches of land available for cultivation which fell under his n(itice. His report is accom- panied by six explanatory plans and three photographic views. Lieutenant Mayne was detached Irom J I. M.S. Plumper by order of Captain Eichards on a somewhat similar errand to that above VOL. I v. n 84 MAYNE, PALMER, AND BRGBIK [Dec. 12, 1859. mentioned. Ho also has brought back a large amount of local in- formation, numerous mineral specimens, and an explanatory map of the country ho visited. Mr. Justice Bcgbie, who had held a circuit in those same districts, and had .seized the opportunity of making a reconnaissance of them, also reports the results of his observations as to the capabilities of the country for transit, the groimd suitable for cultivation, &c. In speaking of some mutual complaints between whites and Indians tliat were made to him at a village on the Upper T j-aser, he goes on to say : — " On the other hand, many cases of cattle stealing were alleged by the whites of all nations against the Indians, and stealing, indeed, of anything which could by iiossibility be eaten. For even the cattle which Indians stole they did not attcnijit to sell or make use of otherwise than as food, i;naiiy, at Fort Vans couver, to opeiily reprobate the conduct of their chief! 11 2 3(3 MAYNK, PALMKH, AND BEGBIE [Dec. 12, 1859. At length, when a sufficient niimhcr had become located (a hody, he believes, came across the Eocky Mountains), they petitioned the American Government to afford the necessary protection to American citizens, and thus it was that British rule was ousted from tlie Columbia or Oregon River,* Inniiediately subsequent to this he visited Monterey, California, where an insurrection had taken place, and they had declared themselves independent of Mexico. The American Consul there had married the daughter of the then President. He had informed him that "his instructions lully warranted him in stating that the American Government expected the Oregon question was in my liands, that it was to be settled that year, and that if the British Government was dis- posed to meet the question in a fair spirit, the American Government woidd not offer any objection to California being held by Great Britain for the Mexican debt" (at this period the revolutionary chiefs were disposed to ally themselves to England). On his reaching San Bias the Vice-Consul informed him that he had been requested by the Minister at Mexico to apply to him for the fiiUest information on all these matters, and he was assured by him (Mr. I'arron) that the tenor of his despatch to the Home Government — a copy of which was furnished to him — would prove most satisfactory (this was as from confidential connnuni- cations with the Embassy). It was subsequently intimated to him, ** That as he was a Commander in the Navy, and had travelled out of his province in communicating direct on such subjects, no notice would be taken of it." The result fully verified the remark. England lost California, the Oregon, and was, to use a nautical phrase, " fleeted up" to the 49th degree. 1 f the British Government had acted with becoming prudence in 1838, and had viewed well the ground before ceding the Hudson Bay territory, the i^an Juan difficulty never would have presented itself. We had literally been shouldered out of the Oregon territory by the over-zealous desire of this Sub- Governor of Fort Vancouver to introduce American missionaries into the rich lands of the Wallamette. Dr. Hodgkin, f.b.g.s., was struck with the statement of one of the writers that the Indian population were destitute of forethought, and made no provision for winter and coming wants. He thought that if the gentlemen employed by Government in these distant services had previously made themselves better acquainted with ethnology, their rejjorts would have been somewhat modified. The early accounts of the natives of North- Western America showed that in the construction of their dwellings and in the curing of fish, &c., they were both disposed and able to provide for their wants. He was, therefore, forced to conclude that their present improvidence was tlie result of their deterioration by the more recent increased communication with whites (fur-traders and gold-seekers). The fact that some were now employed in work proved that they might be useful to themselves and others in this important but too long neglected portion of the I'ritish empire. He was glad to be able to say that the present Secretary of State for the Colonies, and his predecessor Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, had taken a warm interest in the aboriginal tribes in that quarter, and he felt assured that, if properly treated and instructed, the native population would prove of great advantage to the settlers who now, whilst seeking gold, can only obtain the means of subsistence at exorbitant prices. Intimately connected with this territory was the ])roposed railway passing through British North America, and connecting the AtlanUc with the raoilic Ocean ; and if England did not throw away her money in vifle-elubs and the like expenses, she might easily find the means of making tiiis line, which 9 i * * \'i(lf p. 297, Voyage of Sulphur, 1837 to 1842 ; and for a compleu' history of the Oregon, viele Washington living's ' Astoria.' Deo. 12, 1859.] ON BlilTISH COLUMBIA. 37 J Hhould bo regarded an one of th« most important in the filobe. Our foUow- nieml)cr, JaiTios Macqueon, so well lt pace with gold, so that there was no relative disproportion in the value of the two metals, and this was principally owing to the discovery of tjuicksilver mines in California, upon the price of which the productiveness of the mines of silver always depended. The Chairman said that many years ago he had ventured to express the opinion in various writings, and in a lecture delivered at theKoyal Institution, that there need be no ai)prehension of having too much of a good thing, by the discoveries of enormous accumulations of gold ; and the result up to the liresent time seemed to have proved the opinion to have been sound. , >V( i "iH t-m- €9wmi flf iJsi gjofjal (StopRjyftual S^a^ui^ Thx Babl ds Out and Ripok, Ac, &o., 4to. I'^KMif.Capt. Richard, B,N., C.a, &c.| iixan, Cakmel Q., Bengal Arty. I MtmoHisoN , Sir Roderick I., O.Q.StJl., &9, Stebb, Ool, W. H., M.P., ke. If' BiDDULPH, Robert, fikq. 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