CHAPTER VI. 



THE HOME OF THE REINDEER. 



FROM Lake Athabasca to the Height of Land our 

 course had constantly been up stream, but from this 

 point to the sea the way must ever be with the current. 

 Having launched our little fleet in the lake on the north 

 side of the watershed, the new stage of the journey was 

 begun with a strong, fair breeze. 



The lake is a large one, and has been named Daly 

 Lake after the Hon. T. M. Daly, then Minister of the 

 Interior for Canada. Towards the centre of it was dis- 

 covered a peninsula, which is connected with the west 

 shore only by a very narrow neck of land, across which 

 a portage was made. For a day and a half we were de- 

 layed here by a gale, the most severe we had so far 

 encountered. So wild was the lake during this storm 

 that water-spouts were whirled up from, its billows and 

 carried along in great vertical columns for considerable 

 distances. 



Certain remarkable physical features in the shape of 

 great sand " Kames," or high ridges, were also observed 

 at this locality. They were composed of clear sand 

 and gravel, were sixty or seventy feet in height, trended 

 in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction, were 

 quite narrow on top, and so level and uniform that they 



