New-York tribune., 1902-01-12

camping sampp m for for the night Flat Rock Portagthe
At daybreak we made way across the trail
arresf eaq bo9 our II first glimpse of Lake Sepgon the
tucson s Bay, measuring about forty miles long
y from the dark. deep water and forest fires have
scorched S its bleak headlands. Here the Hudson's
soon as our supplies were on board she slipped out
I must not give the impression OF the Indians as
race idle, childish and incapable. In his own
passed. In the woods he as agile as deer He
VIII carry his canoe through underground that
almost balks you empty handed On one occasion
we were making our way overland TO small lake.
was five miles We rested only once. e.u ana aithous6
/ was only burdened with rifle I had great
bore on his shoulders my fifty pound canoe. See
through the sharpness Of his wits, one half expects
the ingenuity by which he secures his prey. His
ing, but he does not rely on such implements ex-
cIusively. One day partridge started up in front
by some chance we were without arearm. The
ner OF partridges little suspecting the sequel In
about q minute an Indian had cut down a sapling
executing flank movement he soon had the silly
bird dangling at the end of his pole
Our cook Perrot a French Canadian who
knew the backwoods from the ottawa to Hudson's
Bay but before we reached H home we had dragged
Perrot was also our interpreter He knew all about
Otibway squaw. but this Perrot denied with good
Scotch oath and as he wore long fair mus,
r nm AS 9su a1db his 6%gy T2s rso in
and the profane. The last named he had perfected
in long course OF river driving the Gatineau.
stark oath as fetching as a canthook Our guides
knew no English. but they told their yarns. to
Perrot with the most outrageous powwow. And
afterward he repeated them to
To be with Perrot in the canoe was to be at
high the wave. his paddle seemed to throw oil
foOd rushing river or foamng cataract had
no hidden terrors for him, He knew by the shade
was the reef, and he would juggle his canoe
false movement, and the tiny craft would be shat
tered on the rocks or sw9mped by the back eddy.
and on account of its element of constant danger
the running Of rapids is mos most exciting sport sport
way, perhaps half mile in length. swept around
like the panorama past the window of a train.
Your pulses gallopng, but your eye is fastened
must second His paddle p is nov on the port, now
last chute you bound like toboggan on the ice,
canoes race down, taking exactly the same course,
but running less risk now that you have picked
landing is made at the foot of the rapids.
since here is always the best ds1ng & GROUND r. f The
clearing ple tents pitched. Meantime the cook
ha made f6s ee e is on hs pork on
swsd ed 4e %Sos ts b pat G or
sauce piquante One will eat anything, and lots
and ar l. the taffra log shows thirty or forty miles
day Then a good long smoke round the camp
of 6ek of of Wd DUCK Png tRe
day there will be a howl of bouillon before you
turn I'm for the night.
AS was due to return to England in the autumn
II became necessary for me TO abandon the party
in the woods. We reached a Hudson's Bay post in
late September and here l prepared to take my
leave Fortunately the factor of the post send
ing two Indians down the railway for the winter
supplies and it was soon arranged for couple
of bounds that l should have place in their
canoe Our cook prepared hamper of food to last
me for a week SO, and at daybreak one morn
ing we padded of sight of Nepigon House In
four months 1 had picked up some Ojibway but
in spite of my few phrases that journey down TO
the Great Lakes was lonesome
One night the waves rose higher and higher, and
so did the bark canoe. until began TO doubt II
she could weather the increasing gale. Our only
chance to for cape that thrust out a
long lean finger into the surf, beyond which we
hoped TO find lee shore. On the brave little
canoe bounded, riding the billows like a cork, but
not always escaping the white waves that curled
nm astern. Constant baling, however, kept her
afoat and she rode swiftly toward the point. A
ssndbar ran out some distance, and TO avoid
swamping we kept her head seaward Bit AT
last we fancied ourselves clear OF the bar and
swineing her bow around We gybed the blanket
over she went, fortunately in shallow water, and