Shanghai is admittedly the best place to got away from during its two months of heary July and August, and its one treacherous month, September; but the question where to go to is not so readily answered. Chefuo is nearly as hot and is dreadfully dull; Pootoo or the Saddles do not yet possess a Family Hotel; and Japan, except in the hills, is as enervating as China. British Columbia, however, affords the most complete change that can be got within moderate time and it also has the great advantage of giving the visitor something to do beyond simple sight-seeing, although the sightseeing there is on the standest scale. This "something to do" can consist of fishing or shooting, or both, and I now you a few notes of a six weeks! holiday spent by my wife and myself in the enjoyment of cool temperature, grand ficent climate, and some ith the rod. To my mind tly-fishing combines all the pleasures of shooting with prolongation of the attendant excitement of killing, and this gentle art can be indulged in to an unlimited extent in British Columbia, whilst the invigorating. air of high altitudes does good work to the run-down system of a China resident. The places now mentioned are all on the beaten track of the Canadian Pacific Railway and its branches, and they are, of course, most readily reached by the Empress steamers to Vancouver, than which no more comfortable boa exist, and the same degree of comfort and excellence is found. in all, the hotels, ete., run by the company. 'The only drawback to the Canadian Pacific route is that it is somewhat too cold and, even in July, the passenger must be well provided' with winter clothing and thick rugs. And it is also necessary to prepare the traveller in British Columbia for two other serious drawbacks which exist there, more or less, every summer: these are the dense smoke caused by forest fires and the prevalence of mosquitoes. From Victoria to Banff the whole country. was, this summer, enveloped in smoke for at least
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