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thing is full of life and moving about. The trip 

 took us seven days going; coming back by an- 

 other route we gained one day. On the whole 

 of that journey through bush, lakes and rivers 

 we only fired two cartridges, whereas our small 

 gill-net gave us splendid fish each camping 

 place. 



Another trip I remember, this time in the 

 winter, accompanying the men who carried the 

 winter despatches between Pic Kiver and Mich- 

 ipecoten, a distance of 120 miles each way. I 

 was prevailed upon to take a rifle, as the route 

 went over' a very high mountain where deer 

 (caribou) were seen every year by the men. 

 Well, I suppose they told the truth ; but I car- 

 ried that gun 240 miles without firing a shot. 

 No, as a possible help to stave off starvation, 

 commend me to a net and snare in preference 

 to a gun. 



In my younger days in the Hudson's Bay 

 Company's service I put in many years in vrhat 

 we call the Moose Belt in Quebec that is, 

 from the St. Maurice Kiver on the east to Lake 

 Nipissing on the west from the Kepewa on the 

 south to near the height of land on the north. 

 All inside these boundaries was teeming with 

 moose. They were killed in the most wanton 

 manner by Algonquin Indians and the lumber- 



