A word that never was broken or sold,
But the one who knows is best."

At Tete Jaune Cache, they are preparing to "strike camp" and move on to
Mile 149. This has been the supply station for all the outposts, which
means more than you may think, for the Railway Company furnishes an
amazingly generous and varied bill-of-fare to its employees.

Don't ask me what you can get here, for I won't tell lest the urban
epicures whose jaded palates need tickling should start out in a body
for this lodge at Tete Jaune.

And the leading man in the kitchen has the most substantial merit and
can roast a sirloin of beef or bake a cake of prodigious bigness for
the men's supper just as he can cunningly and designedly contrive a
pimento bisque, an omelette espanol, or shrimps a la creole for the
boss and his company. I'll not tell another word about the fare, but,
believe me it is "with such cookery a monkey might eat his own father."

Te' Jaune, as it is familiarly called in the North, is situated on the
Fraser River. Because of the snow melting on the mountains, the Fraser
is swollen as if the waters surged from underneath. While we wait,
swart, husky-looking men are putting off to Fort George in primitive
craft built of squared logs. These boats are called scows. They are
carried along by the current which is from six to eight miles an hour,
and are guided by means of a paddle with a vast yellow blade.

As the men pass on and wave their hands to us, a fret falls on me to go
with them along this river-road to its very end, and if you are of my
kin you would want it too. We would live sturdily; we would be sopped
in sunshine, and God would give us joy.

At Te' Jaune there are many tongues spoken, for the workmen hail from
all over the universe. Of late, we have heard much about these
foreigners and of "those nations which we, so full-mouthed, call
barbarous." Certain Canadians are enwrathed and utterly discomfited
because of them. It is their desire to tidy up the country by sending
the "alien offscourings" to where they belong. They tell us that our
manners will become corrupted and our institutions imperilled by them.

This fear of strangers is not peculiar to our country and age.
Strangers have, in all lands, been looked upon as enemies to the
commonwealth, and consequently to be avoided or extinguished.
According to Flavius Josephus, when Moses came to die he said, "Oh you
Israelites and fellow-soldiers....