204 LEAVING THE LONE LAND 



canoe, caring for nothing in the world, he set off 

 on his hazardous journey. Miraculously so the 

 story goes he made the voyage, and reached 

 Reindeer Lake in safety, and thereafter firmly 

 believed that there was a Great Spirit. More- 

 over, he married a seventh wife, who did not die 

 as the others had done." 



January 1, 1915. In the afternoon we reached 

 the Fur Post at the south end of Reindeer Lake, 

 after having been almost five successive days in 

 travelling down the great lake. 



At the Post we took on sufficient frozen fish 

 to feed our dogs to Pelican Narrows ; then pulled 

 out again and trailed onward until an hour after 

 dark, when we camped for the night at the first 

 rapid on the upper reaches of the Reindeer 

 River. 



January 2. Travelled hard all day overland 

 through rough, hilly country west of Reindeer 

 River, while it snowed incessantly. 



Reindeer River course is not used as a winter 

 route by the Indians, a more direct and un- 

 twisting course being chosen in preference to 

 the west of it. 



January 3. In the dark of early morning, as 

 was customary, we moved out to take up the 

 trail again. When day broke the sky was dull 

 and despondently grey, but the snowstorm had 

 ceased. The trail to-day was like that of yester- 

 day : hard and difficult when traversing the 

 country overland between the lakes, seven of 

 which we travelled through before making con- 

 nection to Reindeer River, which we reached 

 about noon. 



