108 Up the Ottawa. 



Hawley's Island, two and a half miles below the latter town. 

 In addition to the scenery, one object of historical interest 

 presents itself, respecting which we quote Dr. Tache : — " In 

 ascending the great River Ottawa, one has to stop at the rock 

 of the high mountain, situate in the middle of the portage of 

 the seven chutes, at the foot of the island of the Grand 

 Calumet. It is here lies Cadieux s tomb, surrounded to this 

 day by a wooden railing. Each time the Company's (Hudson 

 Bay) canoes pass the little rock an old voyageur relates to 

 his younger companions the fate of the brave interpreter." 

 His history is somewhat as follows :— Cadieux was a roving 

 interpreter, who had married a young Algonquin girl, and 

 purchased at this portage furs for the traders. After a winter 

 thus passed he ascertained that a party of Iroquois were 

 waiting to pounce on the canoes. To prevent this, he and 

 a young brave endeavoured to inveigle the Iroquois into the 

 woods, while the canoes descended the rapids, and by a cir- 

 cuitous route himself rejoin the voyageurs. He succeeded in 

 the first part of his design ; but when thirteen days had 

 elapsed, and Cadieux had not been heard from, a party was 

 sent to scour the woods, who found a small hut of boughs, 

 and the corpse of the interpreter half covered with green 

 branches. His hands were clasped over a large sheet of birch 

 bark, on which was scribbled his tale of exhaustion, hunger 

 and death. The piece of bark on which his death song was 

 written (for Cadieux was a poet) was brought to the post of 

 the Lake of the Two Mountains, and the voyageurs of to-day 

 have set it to a plaintive melody, which is much in the style 

 of the old Norman ballads. 



At Pembroke, seventy miles from Ottawa, the last link of 

 the steamboat navigation of the Ottawa commences, ending 

 at Des Joachim, forty miles higher up the stream, passing 

 through the Upper and Lower Alumette Lakes with all 

 their soft and romantic beauties, and through the stern and 



