H4 THE SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE; 



ceive by what has already been said that the deer does not 

 always come to the exact spot at which the sportsman is 

 stationed, or even to the lake at which he is wanted. 



Few dogs possess sufficient sagacity to return on 

 their own trail and thus reach their master. I have seen 

 only a single animal that would uniformly follow out this 

 course. That dog, an animal called " Fan," was the prop- 

 erty of Dr. Pokorney, and has already been described in 

 this book. 



When the captain reached us, he soon learned that 

 his brother had gone to his house in the village of Maga- 

 netawan, and he promptly started to find him, in order that 

 Wellington might accompany us in his (the captain's) 

 place. This arrangement may last only a few days, or it 

 may be a week before the captain's search will be rewarded 

 by finding his lost pets. We left Maganetawan about 

 eleven o'clock in the morning, and reached Burk's Falls 

 before four o'clock P.M. 



The scenery along this river is certainly very pictur- 

 esque. The banks are covered with heavy forest-trees, 

 and there are aquatic plants and bushes growing in the 

 shallow water along the shore. The amount of clearing 

 along the banks of this river, seen from the decks of our 

 little steamer, was very limited in the autumn of 1884. 

 Captain Ross, when descending the Maganetawan in com- 

 pany with the author, in 1880, pointed out to us the very 

 spot where several years ago he saw his first moose. He 

 gave us a clear description of the animal, and did not seem 

 well pleased with himself because he had failed to kill the 

 monster with a single charge of buckshot, which he gave 



