RETURN JOURNEY TO OTTAWA RIVER 147 



to give more attention to the voyage on the coast of 

 James Bay, and up the Abbitibbe, or Abitibe, as the old, 

 and, I think, more correct, geographers called it ; but it 

 is spelt half-a-dozen different ways in old French maps. 

 The descriptions of country that I must there give would 

 answer fairly well for the Albany ; at all events, to de- 

 scribe both rivers would read like a repetition. And the 

 description of the fauna on the Abbitibbe is precisely that 

 of the Albany, unless specially noticed to the contrary. 

 The reader will perhaps kindly bear this in mind while 

 perusing the next chapter. 



