24fi JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



ciently deep for canoes in the channels. It is 

 from one hundred to two hundred yards wide, 

 and is bounded by high and steep banks of clay. 

 We encamped at a cascade of eighteen or twenty 

 feet high, which is produced by a ridge of rock 

 crossing the river, and the nets were set. A 

 mile below this cascade Hood's River is joined 

 by a stream half its own size, which I have called 

 James' Branch. Bear and deer tracks had been 

 numerous on the banks of the river when we 

 were here before, but not a single recent one 

 was to be seen at this time. Credit, however, 

 killed a small deer at some distance inland, which, 

 with the addition of berries, furnished a delight- 

 ful repast this evening. The weather was re- 

 markably fine, and the temperature so mild, that 

 the musquitoes again made their appearance, 

 but not in any great numbers. Our distance 

 made to-day was not more than six miles. 



The next morning the net furnished us with 

 ten white fish and trout. Having made a further 

 deposit of iron work for the Esquimaux w^e pur- 

 sued our voyage up the river, but the shoals and 

 rapids in this part were so frequent, that we 

 walked along the banks the whole day, and the 

 crews laboured hard in carrying the canoes thus 

 lightened over the shoals or dragging them up 

 the rapids, yet our journey in a direct line was 



