Britain was this year awakening to the truth that these men had gone thither for a purpose.

Here now was a congress of Great Britain's statesmen, leaders of Great Britain's greatest monopoly, the Hudson Bay Company, to weigh this act of the audacious American Republic.

I was not a week in Montreal before I learned that my master's guess, or his information, had been correct.

The race was on for Oregon! All these things, I say, I saw go on about me.

Yet in truth as to the inner workings of this I could gain but little actual information.