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he had a steel trap attached to his hind leg. The poor 

 fellow had evidently carried it about with him for a con- 

 siderable time. Finding a lot of fish congregated together 

 in this open place he had taken up his abode near it, and 

 when he wanted a meal had only to show himself to 

 create a panic and cause the foolish little fishes to jump 

 on the ice, where they became an easy prey to him. 



The facilities for canoeing are unrivalled in and around 

 the Bay of Chaleur ; the whole of this part of New Bruns- 

 wick and Lower Canada is one great network of lakes 

 and rivers. A canoe can go from the head waters of the 

 Restigouche, with a very short " portage " of a mile or so, 

 into the head waters of the St. John. Again, back from 

 there up the Tobique and down the Nepisiguit to the bay 

 again. From the head of TJpsalquitch a very short 

 " portage " takes one into the Nepisiguit. Up these rivers 

 the lumberers and the trappers take their provisions in the 

 fall of the year, towing them against the stream in scows, 

 to which horses are harnessed at the end of a long line, 

 canal fashion ; only with this difference, that there is no 

 road for the horses, who are generally in the water, some- 

 times even swimming ; and that instead of a smooth canal, 

 raging torrents have to be stemmed. 



Hardly has the ice vanished in the spring when the 

 rivers and lakes teem with canoes of many different 

 shapes and patterns, from the log propelled with con- 

 siderable skill and much noise by two stalwart red- 

 shirted lumbermen, to the handy little Indian bark 

 paddled smoothly, gracefully, and noiselessly by the 

 red man and his helpmate. The lumber is now runniDg 



