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direction; have two or three narrow shaves of limbs falling on tents; expecting the crowd out every hour.

Sept 26th. No sign of the party surely they will be here today; but the rain may have stopped them it is very wet today.

Sept 27th. The rain has caused the lake to rise 3 ft consequently making us move all our tents; it is still raining hard & no sign of the party.

Sept 28th. Fine today; making things ready for the party; cooking lots of grub for them.

Sept 29th. At last they arrive; one man with a black eye thro effect of someone's knuckles. we are sent to get extra boats from Union.

Sept 30th. Three of us start back in separate boats and have a race against a hard wind; one man gets disabled losing one of his row locks so I take him in tow part of the way trying to tack with the sail.

BC Archives, AAAA1452 File 1 / OGILBY, William Law / Diary, 27 Mar to 8 Oct 1892.