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this point and return to offset it 20 chains to left of line where we get down with great difficulty and personal risk one man going ahead on his hind quarters and making steps as he goes: at 5 p.m. We return on a [illegible] to our tents.

April 7th We move camp to Lake below where two canoes await to transport us to other side: a very pretty lake it is abounding with trout: with several comfortable looking domiciles on its inviting shores.

Sproats Lake and Road

As soon as camp is pitch dinner is announced and one settler comes around to see our outfit, inviting our surveyor over to dinner in the evening: the latter says in his own blunt way "Can't come. dont dine

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