The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-26

lemons and very few other odds and
ends At the outset you can even carry
eggs packed I'm sawdust. but remember
the pOrtages where everything is literary
luggage 10 be logged by some
body. The hotel people Will provide tents
Tor yourself and men, blankets and camp
pit
Thus equipped you embark on 4 little
logging stcsner with your Indians en-
gagged from the reservation at POinte
llcue andfn couple Of hours you are
on low sandy SncIe where You are tGId
the Mtstasslnt dchouches into the lake.
The canoe IS swung over the side and
loaded the Indians knecl 4 bow ana
stern, and you sit amidships on the bot
tom and presently your beautiful craft
Is darcing oven the water and the Wild
ern,ss Is before You and YOU have begun
70 live. There are q few rough farms
IN the low country through which you
pass at first. Perhaps you VIII camp In
clearing. but with a very early start
and with active men IL is possible 10 reach
the Fifth Falls Of the Mistassini at night
The lower river Is monotonous, but there
il no lack Of natural h'auty-and also
OF delay-at the four DOrtages where the
great river pours down huge lodges in
fOaming torrent. Everything is unlOaied
and as yOu step from the canoe on the
ledge and wave catches YOU on the calf
you realize the mass ana volume Of water
behind this perpetual unrest. one Indian
swings the canoe up on his shoulders,
steadying II by strap around his fore
head and the other loads himself down
win TIE outfit and you with your rods
follow them across "a shelving ledge Of
gray and reddish rock vened with bril-
liant quartz. over fallen logs IN a moss
grown natural stair way, through an
evergreen Forest, where partridges gaze
at YOU in fearless wonder and presently
out on another sloping rock platform
above the cataract At one place il is
necessary TO cross the current between
two Aills which are quite close together
ana at high water have seen as pretty
a hlt OF canoeing here as one could wish
But the best is 10 come. The great Fifth
Fails IS a miniature Niagara in its gem
eral divisions and approaching from be-
low you disembark and climb up to an
island which corresponds roughly as TO
site with Goat Island There you may
sit at your tent door looking down with
long stretch Of foaming and tossing
water framed by dark green forests with
the river laundering over the main falls
at your right and sending up clouds OF
irdescent spray and the smaller falls
dashing over the red and white cliffs
on your left. No more beautiful camping
pace mas giaddened my eyes I'm the course
or wide experience unless ! except
camps on the TANKS Of the fairest OF our
mountains, Tacoma. But a fisherman
who has journeyed hundreds Of miles
for new experience is apt TO postpone
scenery. In the morning the fish are apt
20 approach the foot Of the falls To feed
on the flies caught I'm the foam. When
the water Is very high they may be Off
1ou may fish from the rocks or from
the canoe according 10 the conditions. |
Let your fly sink beneath the surface |
and draw II along with a succession OF
slow pulls-not with one samooth contin- |
nous motion on the surface Suddenly
there is n firm, hard resistance. and al
your answering strike bar OF glisten- |
ing silver shoots upward four feet from
the water and then the scream OF the
reel rouses you from your bewilderment |
The fish darts far out into the river and |
leaps again and again. and then bolts |
toward you. and. perchance, flies gaily |
over the canoe. I have stood upon a |
ledge three or four feet above the water.
but not out OF reach OF the restless