Excerpt from A Pioneer, 1851Very monotonous sailing week after week without seeing any signs of life besides some sea birds and porpoises. Arrived at Victoria, Vancouver Island, 14th May, 1851. Although the voyage was long and tedious I had no wish to leave the ship and so many friends, made on our long voyage. However, the next day after anchoring, Mr. Douglas, Chief Factor in charge, sent Mr. George Simpson in a large canoe manned by Indians, to take me on shore. On landing walked up the Fort to the Mess Hall, where I was met by Mr. Douglas and Mr. R. Finlayson, who gave me a corf dial welcome, had early dinner, as the custom was, enjoyed the change of food from the ship - mutton, fish, grouse, etc., and fresh vegetables.After dinner John Ogilvy, a stalwart young clerk in the service, brought two horses round to the hall, and off we went for a scamper round Beacon Hill and Clover Point, which I enjoyed immensely. Wild clover over those parts a foot high, which has died out. Milk and butter in abundance, the company having a dairy of one hundred cows on the hill where the Cathedral now stands, afterwards moved to where the Pemberton house now stands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.