And the Canadian Minister of the Interior wrote this at the time: "Thousands of pack horses lie dead along the way, sometimes in bunches under the cliffs, with pack saddles and packs where they've fallen from the rock above, sometimes in tangled masses, filling the mud holes and furnishing the only footing for our poor pack animals on the march, often, I regret to say, exhausted, but still alive, a fact we were unaware of, until after the miserable wretches
加拿大内政部长这样写道： 路的两边躺满了马的尸体 在悬崖下也有遍地的尸首 上面甚至还有马鞍和这些马坠崖前所驮的杂物 有时，在杂乱的人群中，这些马就在那些泥洞里寻找落脚点 在遥远的行程中背负着大量的货物 很多时候，我不得不说，太累了，但是要活下去 一个被我们忽略的事实就是，在骡马队伍之中