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placed her so as to command the mouth of the stream. A gen- 

 tle morning breeze had sprung up, displacing the curtain of 

 thick mist which overhung the lake, and forming that beautiful 

 curl on the water so essential to fly fishing. At the first cast, 

 three Trout rose at my three flies, and with the assistance of 

 Adella, T landed two fine fish. So lively did the fish rise, that 

 after a few casts I was compelled to abandon two flies ; and 

 when the sun poured forth his bright rays, and put an end to 

 my sport, I had thirty fine trout lying in the bottom of the 

 canoe. 



" After a hearty breakfast we again embarked, and darted 

 down the rapid. Howard and Adella were in advance, and I 

 enjoyed the novelty of the scene oi poling a ca7ioe down a rapid. 

 Indeed it was a thrilling sight to behold the tall and graceful 

 figure of the young Indian, stripped to the waist, his glossy skin 

 shining in the morning sun, standing erect and firm in the stern 

 of the canoe — in his hand he grasped a stout pole, some twelve 

 feet long, and with quick eye and ready hand guided his frail 

 bark from the dangerous rocks upon which she each moment 

 appeared about to be dashed to pieces. The tJwroughfare was 

 near three miles long. We now entered a lake very similar to 

 that we had left. Wild-fowl were plenty ; but Sabatisie re- 

 commended abstaining from shooting, as we expected to find 

 Moose either browsing on the margin, or wallowing in the 

 stream. The Indians having resumed their paddles in the deep 

 water, we glided quietly on, passing three lakes and as many 

 connecting streams. About mid-day the sun became so over- 

 poweringly hot, that we resolved to take shelter on the first 

 gi-assy bank we came to. The canoes were hauled up, and we 

 cast ourselves under the shade of a hospitable cedar. I had 

 smoked myself drowsy, and was composing my limbs for a 

 doze, when Adella making a sign to us to be quiet, cast himself 

 flat on the earth and wormed his body to the water's edge. In a 

 short time he returned to us with the joyful news that two Moose 

 had entered the stream a short distance below. How he had 

 guessed such was the case, before he obtained ocular demon- 



