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CHAPTEE VIII. 



' THE LAKE WHERE THE SAND LIES ' TO ' GNEISS TEREACES.' 



Moose Moose Country Moose Calling Shaw-a-Gunsch A 

 Moose Story Another Accident Canada Balsam again The 

 ' Lake where the Sand lies ' Stillness and Beauty of the Scene 

 Effect on the Men A Race Trolling Mosquitoes and 

 Blackflies The ' Gneiss Terraces ' Their Symmetry and Charac- 

 teristics Mosses and Lichens Making Tents comfortable Rain 

 Wandering over the Terraces Wonderful Lichens and Mosses 

 The Labrador Tea-plant. 



' ~T\0 you think there are any moose in this country, 

 -L/ sir ? ' enquired one of the voyageurs as he was 

 looking round for dry birch-bark to light the fire at the 

 dawn of day. 



' I don't think so. Why do you ask ? ' 

 ' I thought I heard a moose cah 1 in the night.' 

 ' They don't call at this season of the year, it 's late in 

 the fall before the moose begins to cah 1 .' 



' I have not heard them myself, in the woods ; but 

 Laronde has been away up the Ottawa, and he was tell- 

 ing us last night about moose calling. I thought he said 

 that they did cah 1 in the early summer, so I think it must 

 have been the cow moose calling her calf.' 



When Laronde came back, I questioned him about the 

 moose, as we sat round the fire waiting until breakfast 

 was ready - - all the things but the cooking utensils being 

 at the other end of the portage. 



