Year: 1859

"oIoS az Is, oin au 'he raft together again, and
poled down stream To-day we ate oaoob - 49,


frog, all we could find, and began to foI a. q iw @
| were hungry. But there was no connrie;; sn"' We We


talk was of the hopeful future, and the c;viit;o,,


we hoPed yet TO reach. Down the creek we went


into lake some two miles long, and into which NC


OF course supposed the stream passed HAVING its


outlet at the other end We followed down the


northern bank, keeping always in shallow spots so


uuaS our poles could touch the bottom, until we ar
rived at the bottom of the lake. where we found no


outlet' ana turned back upon the southern bank in


9uesS 9 Vi IT, On reaching the head of the lake we


% %Ioun9 that the current of the creek turned alb.
| losing it. ~ o Ae"SO'' oA 0AA


We felt happy to have found it again. and nlied
| our poles like heroes We passed. during the dav


the spot where we had first struck the creek. and


where we had made slightly landmark which might


afterward aid us in finding the Atlantic. shonId we


ever wish to do so in order to get her out At ncbt
| we did not stop, but kept the raft poino down


tnTough the shades of awful forests, whose solemn
stlilness seemed to hold the unrevealed mystery of
our darkening future. About ten o'clock it began
to rain again. We stopped the 'vessel' and
crawled in under some "tag" alders on the bank


Where our extreme WEAKNESS enabled us to get per


maps, half an hours sleep. Rising again. flor twas
easier to pole atnight in the rain down an unknown
stream than lie on the ground and freeze we pressed
on Tor couple of hours, until about three O'clock
When pure exhaustion induced us to stop again


lhis tlme we found spot where the cayev bank
lacked little of coming down to the water On
the mud we threw little bundle of straw. and
sat down with our feet drawn up under u.s. so that
our oeht oodles presented little surface as posi-
Die LOT the rain to beat upon. But we could not
stand such an uncomfortable position long and as
the daylight of the Sabbath broke upon us, we
"e.e Poling GOWN the stream with driZzing rain


o a. o . CLOCK we came to place where the stream
SSanoheu-rusnlng over a stony bed, down a deep
uescent between high rocks on either hank To
get our raft down this place we regarded as home
less: we tied up and examined the shore. Here.
again, we found unmistakable evidence of lumhar


men, as they had evidently camped at this nont 70
De mandy by in the attempts they were doubtless
| ooHged to make to get the timber down the canon
Inc rapids were about third of mile iLng and
IN all the rapids of Black River there il nothing 60
wild and romantic as these We descended the
oanK ana thought it best to try our luck on foot
Alter travelling about mile we found the hank so
tng.I tSangteI ana rugged, and ourselves much ex-
nausted, that locomotOn impossible; so we con-
cluded to go back, and if we could get the raft down
piece at a time would go on with her if NOT
we would build as good place as possible to crawl
into and prepare for death.


We went back, and after examining the straar,
a1tentlvey, concluded to try to get the raft down
we at once commenced, and freely confess this
tne most trying and laborious work Of life of la
oor' Inc pieces would not float more than rod
at a time before they would stick on some stonn
winch the low water left above the surface, and
then you must pry it over in some wav and mass II
along TO the next obstruction. We were obliged
10 get into the stream, often up the middle and
there L several times fell headiong comnIeteIv
using up our compass, which now franticallv point


ed IN any direction its added head thoupht desir


ao!e' Inc water had unglued the case, and it was
ruined. Alter long hours Of such labor we got the
raft down, and La Mountain again tied il together
asslng on, IN about an hour we came to a LARGE
iaKe-ten miles long and six miles broad Around
IL we must OIL course pass until we should find the


outlet. so we turned up to the right, and pressed


on with as much resolution as could be expected =
To-day we found one clam, which | insisted La
Mountain should eat, as he was weaker than nv
sen, ana mad eaten little or nothing the day we
N. nrf into Ill H.
tlons OF the shore, keeping always in shallow
water.


At last we stopped at place we thought least
exposed TO the wind. We laid down upon the cold
ground, having lifted up the end of our raft 50 that
the wind might not drift it away in the night We
were cold when we laid down. and both of us trem


pea 3y the hour, like men suffering from severe
attack of the ague. The wind had risen inst at
night, and the dismal surging of TIE waves unon
the shore formed, thought, a fitting lullaby to
slumber so disturbed and dismal as ours. Bv this
time our clothes were nearly torn off. My panta-
looms were slit up both legs, and the Wristbands
nearly torn off. My boots both leaked and our
mighty wrestngs in the canon had torn the skin
| from ankles and hands. La Mountains hat was
gone the hrst day out; he had thrown away his
Woollen drawers and stockings the first dav of our
tramplng, as they dragged him down by the weight


of water they absorbed. We slept but little 1t
| really seemed as though, during that night, we
passed through the horrors of dozen deaths At
daylight we got up by degrees, first on one knee
and then on the other so stiff and weak that we
could hardly stand.


Again upon the almost endless lake we went fol-
lowing round its shore for an outlet About 10
O'Clock we found a broad northern stream which
we thought was the outlet we were seeking and
we entered it with great joy, believing it would
take US to our long-sought Ottawa. Shortly after
entering the stream it widened out and assumed
the fern of lake. We poled up the westerly
shore for about seven miles, but found we were
again deceived


1t had now been four full days since we ate
/ a w haH aata int +bo .
! apiece, four clans, and few wild berries whose


acid properties and bitter taste had probably done
| us more harm than good. Our strength was be-


ginning to fail very fast, and our systems were evil
| DENLY about to undergo an extraordinary change
| L did not permit myself to think of food-the
thought of well-cOvered table would have been


too much. thought over all of poor Strains suf-
ierlngs on the lsthmus ofDarien, where he, too
was padding raft down an unknown stream; but
never believed could stand half the amount of
suffering he did Besides, he had means to make
hre-we had none.


He was upon stream which he knew would
lead to the sea and safety-we were upon waters
whose How we knew really nothing of and were
as much lost as though in the mountains of the
moon: but we could not give it up so," and


took fresh courage as troubles appeared to thcken
Well, we turned the raft around and poled her
back towards the place where we had entered this
last lake. We had gone about a mile when we


heard the sound OF gun, quickly followed by
second report. No sound was ever so sweet to
me as that. We halloed as loud as we could good
many times, but could get no response. We kept
our poles going, and had gone about half mile
when called La Mountains attention to what
thought was smoke curling up among the trees on
the side of a hill. My own evesirht had BEGUN to
fail me to extent that could not depend upon il
when long, steady gaze necessary. He said
it was smoke, and that he thought lust below it. on
the bank, was bark canoe. In a few moments
the blue smoke rolled gently but unmistakablv
above the tree tops and felt that we were saved
Such a revusiOn of feeling was almost too much fo-
pOnId hardly hnlia o.,lo
anything favorable to condition with the utmost
caution. Our bitter disappointments had taught
us that lesson.


We padded the raft with the ends of our poles
directly across the lake, near perhaps three-ourhs
of mile wide, and made for the canoe. II proved
to be large one, evidently an Indians Up to the


bank pressed, leaving La Mountain at the canoe
to cut off a retreat by the Indian in case he was
tmid and wished to avoid us. came at once upon
the shanties of a numbering wood, and from the
chimney of the furthest building broad volume
of smoke was rising. haloed; noise was
heard inside, and nobe-looking Indian came to
the door. "Vous parIez Francaise2" was my eager
inquiry, as grasped his Outstre ched hand eyes,
strand English too" He drew me into the cabin,
and there was the head of the party, noble-heart
ed Scotchman, named Angus Cameron immedi-
ately told my story-that we came in with balloon
were lost, and had been four days without food
asking where we were. Imagine my surprise when
he said that we were one hundred and fifty miles
due north of Ottawa in the dense, uninhabited
forest, whose only limit was the Arctic circle. In
a word, we were nearly 800 miles in a due north
course from Watertown, in latitude At.


Dinner all ready. The party consisted of
four persons-Mr Cameron and his assistant, who
also named Cameron, LaMab MacDougall,
half breed, and his Beauce. | despatched
the young Indian after La Mountain, who came in
after moment the absolute picture of wretched-
ness All that the cabin contained was rendered
us, and we began to eat Language is inadequate
to express sensation while doing so. The clouds
had all lifted from sOmbre future and the 'sil
yer lining" shone all the brighter for the deep
darkness through which we had passed.


FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS.


This Board is in session in Philadelphia On
Thursday Rev. DIR. Cheever submitted to the Board
a memorial to be forwarded to the Senate and
House of Representatives, asking that more vgor
measures be resorted to BY our government for
the suppression of the slave trade.


DR.. Cheever supported the memorial the
ground that the slave trade the greatest 0bsta
Gle in the way of this Board for the evangeization
of Africa Another reason was, that this traffic is
now being pushed with a greater vgor than ever.
He supported it, thirdly, on account of the efforts
made to prevent the just carrying out of the penal
ties against the traffic He thought, also, that the
memorial was exceedingly proper, and that this
of the means by which the Board could, in the
most effective manner, display its moral power
DR.. Cheever read long document in favor of pre-
senting the memorial. He alluded, iu severe terms
to the influence of the horrible trade, not ONLY in
Africa but in this country itself. He attacked
the defenders of the slave trade with very sharp
weapons.


After long debate, in which a number of pep-
temen expressed their decided abhorrence of the
slave trade, the memorial referred to the Bust