Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-10-21

Well. we turned the raft round, and
poled her back toward the place where
we had entered this last lake. We had
gone about mile when we heard the
sound of a gun, quickly followed by
second report. No sound was ever so
sweet to me as that. We hallooed as
loud as we could a good many times, but
could get no response. We kept our
poles going, and had gone about half
mile, when / called La Mountains at
tention to what ] thought was smoke
curling up among the trees on the side of
hill. My own eyesight had begun to
fail me to an extent that I could not de-
pend upon upon it when long steady
gaze was necessary. He said 1t was
smoke, and that he thought just below
it, on the bank, was bark canoe. In a
few moments the blue smoke rolled gen.
t thy, yet Enthusiastically, above the tree
tops, and we felt that we we're saved
Such a revulsion of feeling was almost
too much for US. We could hardly be-
) iieve our senses, and credited anything
r favorable to our condition with the ut
] most caution. Our bitter disappoint-
t ments had taught US that lesson.
e We padded the raft with the ends Of
g our poles directly across the lake, near,
/, perhaps, three-fourths of mile wide, and
made for the canoe. It proved to be g
t large one, evidently an Indians. Up tc
K the bank pressed, leaving La Mountain
E, at the canoe to cut off retreat by the In
70 dian, in case he was timid and wished tt
N avoid us. / came at once upon tht
< shanties of numbering wood, and from
n, the chimney of the furthest building
1t, broad volume of smoke was rising.
I'd halloed-a noise was heard inside, and
7e noble looking Indian came to the door,
ne TouS parley Francois was my cage
Us inquiry, as 1 grasped his outstretche
at hand. yes, sir, and English too H
he drew me into the cabin, and there was th
Id head of the party, noble-hearted Scotch
ur man, named Angus Cameron, immed
it ately told my story-that we came
with balloon, were lost, and had bee
nd four days without food, asking where "
en- were. Imagine my surprise, when b
le. said we were one hundred and fifty mile
he due north of Ottawa-in the dense, III
he inhabited forest, whose only limit was II
by Arctic circle. In a word, we were near
as 800 miles in a due north course fro
ere Watertown, in latitude AZ.
ere Dinner was all ready. The party CO.
ar sisted of four persons-Mr. Cameron, al
md his assistant, who was also named Car
lad eron, La Nab, Mac Dougall, Ia ha
- breed,) and his son Beauceil. l d
Irst patched the young Indian for La Mou
len tain, who came in after moment, t
yed absolute picture of wretchedness. 4
ley that the cabin contained was freely tie
lily dered US, and a0e began to eat. Langua
we is inadequate to express our sensatiO
zen while doing SO. The clouds had all lift
de- from our sombre future, and the 'silT
the lining shone all the brighter for the de
dIy darkness through which we had pass,
Here let me state that the stream
axe came down SO far with our raft is cal
for Filliman's Greek; the large lake we S;
ID a ed around is called Bosketong Lake, q
light drains into Bosketong river-which fo
we into the Gatineau. The Gatineau 10
ould the Ottawa opposite Ottawa City.
a. Cameron assured US that these strea
Wild are so tortuous, and in many places
axe. rapid, that no set of men could get ]
bout down, no matter how well they knew
| de- country, nor how much provisions t
oun- might have. He regarded our deli1
ance as purely providential, and m;
times remarked that we would certai
have persisted but for seeing his smo