SOME LABRADOR RIVERS 



ment, knife in hand, and, throwing away his 

 bow and arrows, sprang towards the Micmac, 

 who, to the amazement of all beholders, re- 

 treated towards the edge of the rock over- 

 hanging the falls, thus drawing his enemy on, 

 when, with sudden spring, he locked him in a 

 fatal embrace, and, struggling towards the 

 edge of the precipice, leaped with a shout of 

 triumph into the foaming waters, and was in- 

 stantly swept away over the tremendous cata- 

 ract, which has since borne the name of the 

 conjuror's or the Manitousin Falls." 



On the 28th of May we paddled and rowed in 

 a modified or " evolved " canoe up the Piashte- 

 bai River. A mile from the bay brought us to a 

 considerable expansion of the river, and, had 

 it not been for our guide, we might have spent 

 many hours in searching the shores of this lake 

 for the continuation of the river above. As 

 it was we were shown the river where we least 

 expected it, flowing for a mile through a 

 drowned muskeg, and then emerging from the 

 forest with rapid course. The swift current 

 finally prevented further progress, and, landing 

 on the right bank near an old bear trap, we fol- 

 lowed through the thick spruce woods an Indian 



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