, 1877-09-09

! took to the stream, and waded it, as eas,..
than penetrating the patural abattIs there waa
We were nearly tive hours emerging from m.
couple hundred yards OF navigation. Froass
here, the river spread out into width Of shaa
low water, With mud bottom, and with strfn.
and flats OF ooze and marsh along In rss sonss
places VIC moved through soft musi or rn;-s
By pushes Of the poles, which would siak ans
stick last in the bottoaless mud, stirring m
nasty smells. Denison shot nlallard duck, but
we couldn't 50 throughathe slush to get it. ~
river then expanded into lake, mile an,l
half long and j mile wide. 1t is called Ionss
Crave Lake, because at its head q solitarT
mound marks the repose in unepl
ing sleep OF come unknown ones Remains.
Into the river again we go, and up It; We maks
haste SO slowly that the hours go on apaee fast
then the water-lilies choke up the passage.
We come again to fields Of reeds aud grass re
have to run down; there are long reaches Of
slime in which we stick from time 10 time, md ID
| no one dare get out, for he would suk and
might stick for good, aud the pushing Of tha
| poles in the slime stirs up foul smells, aud, in
| this respect, the Trout is il1-odorous and m
uberance Of sewage and of{a1 The business Of
| getting along is too serious to admit Of foo1ns
with the poscupines We see. But Denison does
like 4 chance at i duck on the wing, and pep
| pered two or three. Dave tells us the Trout
| swarnls with ducks in the fail,-that they aro
= hearer.da,n Which haired lie wav. iAS # ~. ~
about seventy feet long. and excited our admira.
tion "a fne snecimcn OF auimol eno;neerinr
| and construction. 1t was in form an irregular
curve, with the extreme convex point In the
on each side The face is soiiiiv enbanke;i
with earth. sloninp smoothlr ann evenly from
tile top, while the mass Of the
structure was composed Of the most closely
co.npacted logs, limbs, and sticks, very
that Il must lave hern the worI~ Of m1rch tina
and multituInous beavers. although It IS I,ardjs:
worth dan, to them for s1,cI, fish rs this river
could breed. Tie canoes had to be unloaded.
lifted f3rrr and then reloaded. THE further W.
went the harder The TUG and the hca7irr the
drar, About s We reached the portage for
take Clicagon. and at another beayer-lam-
When we rot over this Slough Of Despond we
tireless push. pluck and patience OF our ahor-
wines f)ur ci.rht miles af trim here show sra
were more homecoming than far-con,ing, Our
kettle boiled here. and our dinner bill of fa-a
titc. Deuison here lust missed the one chance-
probably OF lifetime, that OF plumine him,
self with tho rare spoil OF Joye's roral bird 4
majestic eagle perched On the branchless stem
of \ tree that had fallen clear across the strrar
below US, at right range and clear line, and in
lone enourh. there. in lis reral nriae NJ
feathers. for our gunner to reach and mise a
rife at the sn1en1ffi marx Int a1ary! II vas his
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