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-+~—/ ous for fifhing than that where we had been the. 
March. 
1gth. 
2oth. 
A JOURNEY TO THE 
to a part of the lake that feemed more commodi- 
night before. As foon as we arrived at this place, 
fome were immediately employed cutting holes in 
thé ice, while others pitched the tent, got fire- 
wood, &c.; after which, for it was early in the 
morning, thofe who pitched the tent went a hunt- 
ing, and at night one of them returned with a 
porcupine, while thofe who were angling caught 
feveral fine trout, which afforded us a plentiful 
fupper, and we had fome trifle left for breakfaft, 
Angling for fifh under the ice in winter re- 
quires no other procefs, than cutting round holes 
in the ice from one to two feet diameter, and let- 
ting down a baited hook, which is always kept in 
motion, not only to prevent the water from freez- 
ing fo foon as it would do if fuffered to remain 
quite ftill, but becaufe it is found at the fame time 
to bea great means of alluring the fifth tothe — 
hole; for it is always obferved that the fifh in 
thofe parts will take a bait which is in motion, | 
much fooner than one that is at reft. 
_ Early in the morning we again purfued our 
angling, and all the forenoon being expended © 
without any fuccefs, we took down our tent and | 
pitched it again about eight miles farther to the _ 
Weftward, on the fame lake, where we cut more | 
holes in the ice for angling, and that night caught | 
feveral fine pike. The next day we moved about | 
five miles to the South Weft, down a fmall river; | 
where we pitched our tent; and having fet four | 
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