Excerpt from Gulf and Glacier: Or the Percivals in Alaska It has been well said that a railway station is a fit emblem Of human life, with its brief merriment and grief, its greetings and good-bys, its clamor Of coming and going. Be this as it may, itis probable that Of the half a thousand people in the Lowell Depot that morning, but few abandoned themselves to moral reflections. Certainly Tom Percival was not occupied with philosophical meditation, as he stood on the lowest step of the car Kamloops, looking out eagerly over the crowd that surged to and fro on the platform beside the train. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.