Mr. Mrs. McCallee who had arrived ten minutes earlier from Kelgarn. They had joined the, Coltmans, who had not at our moment's interest in the Kingdome Trading Co., and were to spend the winter in Vega. I struck it has never been more delighted to see any one than I was to see the McCallees. He is a regular fellow' and she is a 'regular girl'. They had lost my manuscript & some other things, for us from Kelgarn and I felt like hugging my little gun, it is a wonderful thing there's a rifle which you know without when you hold at a rest gives after critical moments for that is the time when a gun always goes game, if it has the habit at all. I pulled in their car went me to Vega with St. Mac's. Susander had rented a house not far from A M & Co for the M.T. Co. and we all met there, but They invited us to camp and with them as long as we were in Vega. Olphen was giving a lunch party but without characteristic hospitality of the Far East he included us four new arrivals and tho' he came only half an hour before time. Mac was fresh from the desert with a week's growth of beard this field clothes offset noise which would otherwise have appeared rather conspicuous among the white colors of its other guests. Before lunch I had a talk with S.D.