104 THE LABEADOE PENINSULA. CHAP. vn. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE SECOND GOEGE OF THE MOISIE TO COLD-WATEE 



EIVEE FOETAGE. 



Beautiful Scenery Second Gorge Magnificent Eocks An 

 Accident Michel Michel's Description of the Upper Country 

 The Terrible Current Rabbits Their Uses to Indians Rabbit 

 Pemmican Forest Medicine Indian Intermarriages The 

 Current again The Cold-water River Portage Trout A Land 

 Slide Labradorite Rich Forest Chaos Crossing the Slide 



A Cache Nothing lost on an Indian Trail A Beaver 



Meadow Cold-water River Styx More Trout. 



WE sewed, patched, and gummed the canoes on the 

 See-way-sini-kop Portage, and did not get off until 

 noon. Snow still lingered on the mountains before us ; but 

 the weather in the valley was warm and pleasant. The 

 tracks of the beaver were numerous on the banks, but 

 we were not so fortunate as to see this wary animal. 

 The birch grows to a large size on the flats, and spruce 

 two feet in diameter is by no means uncommon below the 

 second Gorge, where we arrived early in the evening. 



Against the strong current of the Moisie paddling 

 was out of the question ; we used poles and tracking 

 lines, and without them we could not have made any 

 progress. The scenery on the river is everywhere 

 charming, sometimes grand. 



The entrance to the second Gorge is perhaps more 



