The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-15

N order TO reach! Lake Kainichou,
where Elerton had his adventure,
you take train ut Ouch &c for the

II where EHerton had his adventure,
yon take train ut Quebec for the
Il back country, and when you have
been 5olted over two hundred mil es
more of that rickety road, you are put
off in wilderness of pine and tangled
I underbrush-in. the dusk forsaken,
| Eht silly place-fearfuiiy silent when the
train has puffed out of hearing. !. Thence
you go by canoe down a tortuous fussy
! title stream-dodgfng b ,tndaSs, picking
the way through noisy rapids, padding
I laboriously through long stretches of
| slow. black water-untI you sweep out
into the head waters of the Kamichou.
In the twilight you make the lower end
of the lake, where you find hard ground
and u clear space to pitch Your camp.
| IL you love this patch of unspoiied viii
derneSs as some men do, you look back
| over the quiet water, and upon the
vooded shores. which rise u me SKY,
now all aSiow. and you know that you
are happy to have escaped for time
| from the life you have left in the cities.
II have heard you say, Elierton" said
i, one evening. when the days fishing
! had been well done and we were loafins.
blissfully on the shore. that YOU had
| adventure here
About sixty seconds long" said he.
Not long enough to turn mans hair
gray" said l. with laugh.
| i don't know about that" he re-
sponded soberly. Il don't know about
| that. Seconds seem to be very long
sometimes a minute is not like min
ute when death stares you in the face"
But you escaped said I.
That's the ridiculous part of it, said
Ellerton.
We'll" said 1. you've time to tell the
story before take a SWIM
Swim said he, with a shudder 81
think III not go in tonight I've al
ready recalled wildly enough the minute
of horror had off the point there"
and that is the story" said ].
Yes. said he. you're right 1t was
my first summer on the Eami chou, when
l was in happy ignorance of how dense
| a real I<amichou fog may he. l was
here with Jack Black, of our company,
who had made this his fishing ground for
therefore bound in politcness to follow
where he led. We had spent the early
part of the afternoon whipping the
streams above Moose Brook. ana we had
come slowly down the Lake, casting from
the boat, turn about, until we were
mile above the point. and well out into
deep water. Then let the boat drift,
and both took to fishing.
1T had been lowering all day. Dun
clouds hung in the sky from the hills
to the hills, and turned the waters OF
the lake black 1t was hot, gray, damp
--oppressivey 'muggy,' indeed. Jack
had said. II was not long before roll
of thunder sounded from the northeast.
Then on the instant a certain nervous
depression. which invariably falls upon
me with the approach Of q storm, strong
( ly asserted itself; and l looked about in
som" apprehension.
Jack, said l. its going to blow hard.
probably; it's going to rain hard ;,nyway Y.
l thiEk w"'d better pun in
" Oh, pshaw!' said Jack. ram won't
hurt US.
BLACK cIouGs We're crowding IN from
the northeast / could readily distin-
suish them from the unhroksn gray OF
The sky overhead. and it seemed to me
that wilma had torn their edges TO tat
tiers. The rain had hidden the hills and
] could See it sweeping over the lake
toward US.
We caught only the edge of the storm,
al. than a heavy summer shower. 1t
cleared the Sky for time ana left the
water Uurufird. We We're drenched. to
be sure. and I had the boat to bail out.
but well content; and so we
fished until the evening came down, and
L caught sight OF the first star.
Now. Jack, said l. we had better
get in
Jack is at this moment somewhere In
the interior of Newfoundland. where the
mosquitoes are as big as horse flies anc
gather, the visitors say, in clouds
which darken the sun. The salmon are
prOportionately large and plentiful. That
man is after them. Neither distance,
hardship nor expense can dampen the
ardor with which he pursues the game
fish. You will not wonder. then, when
l say that all the polite persuasion !
could bring to bear upon him on this oc
casion was of no effect.
Your wife will be growing anxious
said l at last
on. no.. said he placidly. she won't
expect for an hour yet
I'VE We're then half mile off shore
just beyond the edge of the sandbars.
The lower end of the lake here for some
thing less than half q mile from the out
let is not at any place more than four
feet deep, and in many spots il is much
less than chat. The shadows many
acres in extent, though to all appear
aRces, when the water is turbid, the
depth might be unfat homable. Beyond,
through all the twelve mi es of the lake.
il is deep-even to within q few yards of
the shore.
We were lying, 1 say, just beyond
the sandbars, when j saw ID thick, white
mist begin to creep from the shore out
upon the water. Then II seemed to gath
er in all directions about us; but the
heaviest cloud came across from the
marsh lands in the west.
1T inoffenSive thing at first,
and l saw no danger in it, 1t lay close
to the water-a fieecy, white cloud.
sweeping gracefully toward us. 1t was
only when We're enveloped-when the
shore line had become indistnct and,
growing DINNER yet, disappeared-that l
was startled by the thought that there
might he some difficulty in making land.
" I say l called to Jack, in alarm. you
know your way about here pretty well,
don't YOU
O, erspread his face. He gdzcd about him
in every direction for a omcnt, but he
saw nothing ave ilCle CT black water
about the boat ard white wall round
ABOUT and overhead. I wondered which
ay the camp lay-even, in fact, which
way the shadows lay. ] was utterly con
fused The breeze had failed md there
vas no oerct ptible current. Nowhere was
there visible any object by which our
position might be fixed.
II think sad l. that tie boat was
heading due north when last l saw the
shore. but I'm not certain. 1t was most