136 THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. CHAP. ix. 



CHAPTEE IX. 



THE KA-PI-STA-WA-TI-SAGAN, OR EIDQE PORTAGE, TO THE 

 OJIA-PI-SI-TAGAN, OR TOP OF THE RIDGE. 



The Ridge Portage Beauty and Character of the Lake A Saw- 

 bill Duck and her Young Tenderness and Sagacity of the Bird 

 Habits of the Saw-bill Duck A Cache The ' Top of the Ridge 

 Lake ' A-ta-chi-ka-rni-shish River Its Descent of Five Hundred 

 Feet in Two Miles and a Half Mosquitoes and "Black Flies The 

 Mountain Portage Legend among the Lumbermen respecting the 

 Mosquitoes Trout Beautiful Lake and Scenery Beautiful 

 Variety of Trout Louis' Ya-mah-pish Proposed Ascent of a 

 Mountain The Nasquapee 'Ups ' Magnificent View Reindeer 

 or Caribou Old Nasquapee Camp Nasquapee Intelligence 

 Mode of indicating Distance Mode of indicating Time Mode of 

 obtaining Fire Height of the Mountain or Top of the Ridge 

 Portage Mosquitoes Laronde. 



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EAYING the ' Level Portage ' early on Monday 

 morning, we crossed a small lake on the summit of 

 a low dividing ridge, named the Ka-pi-sta-wa-ti-sagan, or 

 Eidge Portage. 



The rise is 139 feet, and the descent into the Ojia-pi-si- 

 tagan Nipi, or Top of the Eidge Lake, 195 feet. The 

 rocks on the shores of this lake are very grand and im- 

 posing. They rise on one side to an immense height, are 

 quite perpendicular, and of a beautiful purple colour. The 

 lake itself is only 781 feet above the ocean; but the 

 summit of the escarpment on its western shores cannot 

 be less than 1,500 feet, and it forms part of a chain of 



