110 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADA. 



found ; and for a peace-offering a plug of tobacco was 

 left upon it.* 



From our camp at White Mountain, on the morning of 

 the 23rd, we again entered the river, which for ten or 

 twelve miles carried us off to the eastward ; then turn- 

 ing sharply to the northward and flowing swiftly be- 

 tween high, steep banks of sand, it widened out into 

 what has been named Lady Marjorine Lake, a body of 

 water about ten miles long by three or four wide. 

 Through this we passed and at its north-western ex- 

 tremity regained the river. 



It began with a rough, rocky rapid, in running which 

 my canoe struck a smooth rock, was smashed in the 

 bottom, and nearly filled with water ; but though in a 

 sinking condition we managed to get it ashore. Though 

 the contents were soaked, everything was landed with- 

 out serious damage. After a delay of two hours we 

 were again in the stream, and being borne away to the 

 westward the direction opposite to that we were now 

 anxious to follow. 



The river was here a noble stream, deep and swift, 

 with a well-defined channel and high banks of rock or 

 sand. Near the north bank there extended for some 

 miles a high range of dark but snow-capped trappean 

 hills, of about five hundred feet in height. 



On the night of the 24th we camped at the base of 

 two conspicuous conical peaks of trap, named by us the 

 Twin Mountains. 



* My brother in revisiting the Barren Lands during the summer of 

 1894 was hailed by the natives many miles south of the scene of this 

 incident as the " Kudloonah Peayouk " (good white man) who had 

 regard for the goods of an Eskimo, and left on his "kometic" a 

 piece of tobacco. 



