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 THE BISHOP OF CALEDONIA 219

of medium among the different nationalities, and it is spreading among our young people.&quot;

&quot; In a Diocese so curiously situated as Cale donia, you must have undergone strange experi ences ? &quot;

&quot; Yes ; it is, of course, risky getting about some times. Thanks to the permission of the Board of Trade in Victoria, I am practically a sea captain. I am allowed to pilot a vessel, and to engineer my own boat. I can patch a boiler as well as most men, and if you happened to see me coming out of the engine-room sometimes I am afraid you would not think me much like a Bishop. At times I have to do all sorts of jobs to the engines. As to sea life, I don t know of any greater pleasure than to get my hand on the tiller of a vessel. I do not claim to be a sportsman by any means ; but you may be in terested to know that I can always keep the pot going with the proceeds of my gun. In the dis charge of my Diocesan work, I go as far as I can into the interior in canoes, and then I have to walk. My legs are not as strong as they used to be, but they have covered many hundreds of miles. Do you know, people cannot get to the Klondyke goldfields without going through a part of my Diocese. British Columbia, I firmly believe, will become the most wealthy of the provinces of Canada. The mineral wealth is incalculable. There is gold, silver and copper in short, everything that is required to make the country prosperous.

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