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Title: Sandford Fleming, empire builder
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946
Subjects: Fleming, Sandford, Sir, 1827-1915 Railroads
Publisher: London, Oxford University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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elling to-day extended only overthree hours, we have not advanced above a mile and a halfof actual distance, and we all suffer greatly from fatigue. Iquestion if our three days march has carried us furtherthan ten miles. So the journey goes day after day, with little relief fromthe interminable succession of swamps, tangled underbrush,and fallen timber. At last they emerge from the canyon ofthe Illecellewaet and reach the second crossing of the Colum-bia, with Eagle Pass directly opposite. Here supplies from Kamloops were to have met the party,but to their disappointment and dismay there is no signof the men. Only a few days provisions remain, and thejourney over the Gold Range is trailless and difficult. Thefollowing morning, however, brings the missing men—butas if every conceivable obstacle were to be placed in theirway, Fleming learns that instead of bringing the supplieswith them, they have cached them at a point five daysdistant. Yet he can see, though grimly enough, the ridi-
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In the Heart of the Mountains OVER THE MOUNTAINS BY KICKING HORSE 139 culous side of the situation. We were in the heart of adesert and asked for bread. We did not even get a stone,but we met five hungry Indians ready to devour the littlestore we had brought with us. By putting every one on very short rations and travellingby forced marches, they manage to reach the cached pro-visions. Their troubles are now over. With plenty offood the remainder of the journey becomes a simple trampthrough the forest. The trail presently brings them toa good wagon road, and that to Shuswap Lake, wherea steamer is waiting to take them on to Kamloops. CHAPTER XII THE BRITISH ISLES IN 1876 In July 1876, having been relieved of his duties in con-nexion with the surveys and construction of the Inter-colonial, Sandford Fleming took a well-earned vacation.With his wife and six children he sailed from Quebec on the16th of that month, and after a quick and pleasant passagelanded at Londonderry on the 23rd. A

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