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 turned beneath the hooves of our cavalcade.
A kanadski ministar unutarnjih poslova je napisao ovo u to vrijeme: "Tisuće mrtvih konja leže po putu, ponekad u gomilama ispod stijene, sa sedlima i teretom na mjestu gdje su pali odozgo, ponekad su zapetljane mase, punile blatne rupe i stvarale jedini oslonac za naše siromašno opremljene životinje u kasu, često, sa žaljenjem kažem, iscrpljeni, ali još uvijek živ, zapravo nismo bili svjesni, sve dok se bijedni nesretnici nisu počeli pojavljivati ispod naših konja.