RIVERS AND LAKES. 115 



On the following day we pushed on up the 

 river which connects Mollygojack and St. 

 John's Lake, reaching the latter sheet of water 

 soon after mid-day. The stream which con- 

 nects the two lakes pursues a most tortuous 

 course through a densely- wooded plain, passing 

 on its way through several shallow lagoons, the 

 connection between one and the other being 

 often somewhat difficult to find. 



Whilst we were having our mid-day meal 

 on the lake shore a young caribou stag came 

 out of the forest within two hundred yards of 

 us, and without appearing to observe us, though 

 we were sitting in full view on some rocks, 

 sauntered slowly along the water's edge for a 

 short distance and then turned into the forest 

 again. 



Before we had finished our lunch it came 

 on to rain, and continued to do so, though 

 not heavily, until nightfall. In the afternoon 

 we paddled all along the southern shore of the 

 lake, and by four o'clock reached the mouth of 

 a considerable river flowing into it from the 

 south-west. Here we camped in the shelter of 



