The Cascade Mountains Compared with the Rockies--Characteristics and Landmarks of the Former--The Proper Season for Cruising in the Cascades--Grand Scenery of the Columbia--Viewing Mount Tacoma from the City of Tacoma--Men Who Have Ascended this Mysterious Peak--Indian Legends Concerning the Mountain--Evil Spirits, Who Dwell in Yawning Caverns--The View from the Mountain--Crater Lake and the Glaciers--Nine Water-falls in Sight from One Point.
The City of Seattle--A Booming Western Town--Lumbering and Salmon Canning--Extensive Hop Ranches--Rich Coal and Iron Mines--Timber Resources of Puget Sound--Giant Firs and Cedars--A Hollow Tree for a House--Big Timber Shipped to England--A Million Feet of Lumber from an Acre of Land--Novel Method of Logging--No Snow in Theirs--A World's Supply of Timber for a Thousand Years.
Length, Breadth, and Depth of Puget Sound--Natural Resources of the Surrounding Country--Flora and Fauna of the Region--Great Variety of Game Birds and Animals--Large Variety of Game and Food Fishes--A Paradise for Sportsman or Naturalist--A Sail Through the Sound--Grand Mountains in Every Direction--The Home of the Elk, Bear, Deer, and Salmon--Sea Gulls as Fellow Passengers--Photographed on the Wing--Wild Cattle on Whidby Island--Deception Pass; its Fierce Current and Wierd Surroundings--Victoria, B. C.--A Quaint Old, English-looking Town.
Through English Bay--Water Fowls that Seem Never to Have Been Hunted--Rifle Practice that was Soon Interrupted--Peculiarities of Burrard Inlet--Vancouver and Port Moody--A Stage Ride to Westminster--A Stranger in a Strange Land--Hunting for a Guide--"Douglass Bill" Found and Employed--An Indian Funeral Delays the Expedition.
The Voyage up the Frazier--Delicious Peaches Growing in Sight of Glaciers--The Detective Camera Again to the Front--Good Views from the Moving Steamer--A Night in an Indian Hut--The Sleeping Bag a Refuge from Vermin--The Indian as a Stamping Ground for Insects--He Heeds Not Their Ravages.
A Breakfast with the Bachelor--Up Harrison River in a Canoe--Dead Salmon Everywhere--Their Stench Nauseating--The Water Poisoned with Carrion--A Good Goose Spoiled with an Express Bullet--Lively Salmon on the Falls--Strange Instinct of this Noble Fish--Life Sacrificed in the Effort to Reach its Spawning Grounds--Ranchmen Fishing with Pitchforks, and Indians with Sharp Sticks--Salmon Fed to Hogs, and Used as Fertilizers; the Prey of Bears, Cougars, Wild Cats, Lynxes, Minks, Martins, Hawks, and Eagles.