54 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADA. 



I took charge of our own supplies, and checked each 

 piece as it was brought ashore. Our chest of tea was 

 the only article that had suffered from the effects of fre- 

 quent transhipment. It had been broken open and a 

 few pounds lost, but the balance about sixty pounds 

 had been gathered up and put in a flour bag. Before 

 noon everything was safely landed on the shore, and it 

 formed a miscellaneous pile of no small extent. Fol- 

 lowing is a list of the articles: "Bacon, axes, flour, 

 matches, oatmeal, alcohol, tin kettles, evaporated apples, 

 apricots, salt, sugar, frying-pans, dutch oven, rice, pep- 

 per, mustard, files, jam, tobacco, hard tack, candles, 

 geological hammers, baking powder, pain killer, knives, 

 forks, canned beef fresh and corned tin dishes, tar- 

 paulins and waterproof sacks. Besides the above, there 

 were our tents, bags of dunnage, mathematical instru- 

 ments, rifles and a box of ammunition. The ' total 

 weight of all this outfit amounted at the time to about 

 four thousand pounds. 



A sail-boat which my brother had used in 1892, and 

 which was in good condition, rode at anchor before the 

 Fort, and for a time it was thought we would have to 

 make use of this as far as the east end of the lake to 

 carry all our stuff". Moberly, the guide, particularly 

 urged the necessity of taking the big boat, for his home 

 was at the east end of the lake, and he had a lot of 

 stuff for which he wished to arrange a transport, but 

 as we were not on a freighting tour for Moberly, and 

 as we found by trial that everything could be carried 

 nicely in the canoes, we decided to take them only. At 

 this the guide became sulky, and thought he would not 

 go. His wife and two daughters, who were to accom- 



