Excerpt from The Life of Lord Selkirk: Coloniser of Western Canada To such a family belonged the fifth Earl of Selkirk and as we tell the story of his life, it will be for the reader to say whether in what should have been an age of education, personal liberty, and legal right, the Earl of Selkirk did not suffer as great danger, pain, and misery - even injustice and death itself as did the Douglas of the stormy days of the good Sir James or the doughty Earl of Angus. 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.