The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-07

were not sorry to be camped on an
island then and know the beasts were
on the main land. From the camping
place on the sand beach to the end Of
our sixteen days ID the bush we came
on tracks Of moose and all kinds of
game 30 frequently as to show that
that country must be full of game.
I'VE actually saw but one wild
animal, moose. We were then on
Mcpherson lake, we'll off the usual
path, and so little visited that 1t is
Incorrectly located on the maps we
had It is said that no white fishermen
ever visited 1t until this last spring.
Certainly the lake trout in It's waters
were anxious to be caught and though
they didn't run over four pounds they
put up good fight. There are some
big pike (our pickerel) in the lake.
One caught there this year weighed
twelve pounds and while we did not
see any, we hooked one that bent a
trolling outfit into right angle with
Its heavy jaws and got off easily. Our
camp there was on point and the
moose that we saw too came down to
the shore In the early morning for a
bath. Its splashing only couple of
hundred feet from our tent woke us
up and we had something of joke on
the guides, whose tent was nearer,
but who slept through it all. Some
bald headed eagles lived about that
lake and there were wolf den not
far from our camp. One of our guides
undertook to explore the former and
after he had crawled in until almost
out of sight he found it was occupied,
not by wolves, but by wasps, and he
retreated at once. Looms were thick
on Nc Pherson, and almost every
where we went giving their peculiar
call at all hours of the day and night.
"On the way back from Mcpherson
We came within an ace of seeing a big
bear and more moose, as we descended
a creek. But for the fact that the
water was low and the canoes, pump
Ing on logs and stones, made a good
deal Of racket, we would have
caught the animals unawares. AS it
was, the bear had departed so recently
that the muddy water had not moved
down in the current three feet wren
We passed the spot where he had
climbed up the muddy bank, leaving
the marks Of his claws plainly visible.
Similarly we found where moose
had passed down the stream in the
shallow ahead of us, leaving the
waters yet muddy for. us to see. Bear
have been unusually common through
the region this year. Only about a
week ago one of the guests at the Te-
magami Inn left his canoe on the
shore of neighboring island for u
few minutes and when he went back
to it, a bear was examining it. 1t was
ten minutes, he reported, before the
animal moved off and let him get
away.
Though this was the widest region
we were in, it was not there that we
were greeted by the wolves, but at a
point only day from the Inn, on Lake
Wasacsinagama. 1t happened that the
following evening we were visited by
a couple of men out for butterflies,
ferns and such things, travelling light,
going without tents and having Sleep
ing bags only. We told them all. about
the wolves, with some additions pos
sibly, the guides related all the fear
some wolf and animal stories they
could think of or invent and the bug
hunters must have passed a wakeful
night, judging from their worried ap-
pearance when they left us. Anyway
their campfire was burning very
brightly when we turned in for the
night and it was ging well when the
first of us got up in the morning. AS
a matter of fact, the guides declared,
practically everything will run from
you in the summer time except that