Hunting in Many Lands 



Partridges and loons abounded, but ducks 

 were seldom seen. 



The lakes form a complete system of com- 

 munication by means of easy portages, but 

 there are no streams that contain trout and no 

 springs to supply drinking water. This lack 

 of fresh water caused us considerable suffering, 

 as the lake water is supposed to be dangerous, 

 and a pail of spring water, which we got at the 

 start, was carried for days over portages as our 

 most precious baggage. We did not see a 

 sign of a brook trout during the entire trip, 

 and I do not believe that there were any in 

 the waters we traversed. There may have 

 been lake trout, but our trolling produced 

 only pike and pickerel. 



This absence of small game and fish makes 

 the country very uninteresting, and the long 

 monotony between most exciting events is the 

 greatest drawback to hunting on the Upper 

 Ottawa. 



Madison Grant. 



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