"On every hand stretched the forest primeval the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with all its ancient brutality. Briton and Russian were still to overlap in the Land of the Rainbow's End and this was the very heart of it nor had Yankee gold yet purchased Thflits vast domain. The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd singling out the weak and the big with calf and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand thousand generations into the past. ThThe sparse aborigines still acknowledged the rule of their chiefs and medicine men drove out bad spirits burned their witches fought their neighbors and ate their enemies with a relish which spoke well of their bellies. But it was at the moment when the stone age was drawing to a close. Already over unknown trails and chartless wildernesses were the harbingers of the steel arriving fair-faced blue-eyed indomitable men incarnations of the unrest of their race."