The regular trail was missed, the leader taking instead a 

 moose trail. It led straight into a swamp but the leader kept 

 on going until up to his waist in a swamp. But there was 

 clear water beyond and the rest of the party "followed the 

 leader" straight in and dumped the canoes where they could 

 be poled out into clear water. 



One of Nature's Kings. 



It was worth while, this, for while the party stood there a 

 young buck deer came down to the water's edge directly 

 across a narrow bay and eyed proceedings with considerable 

 interest. 



He was only a hundred yards away but apparently did not 

 know anything about gunpowder. As the boats pushed 

 through the reeds, he tossed that stub of a tail of his skyward 

 and rambled back into his home country. 



Farthest North Is Reached. 



The trio of canoes had made their farthest northern point 

 and here swung off to the southeast, headed for Fraser lake. 



The attraction held out there was the lake trout fishing, 

 though warning was given that July was a poor time of year 

 to catch these fellows. In weight they run from a couple of 

 pounds up indefinitely, stories te'ng tcld f 20 end po ;nd 3rs 



Noon saw the canoes on the fair shore of Ensign lake and 

 afternoon witnessed the crossing of several small lakes which 

 were so full of small mouth bass that they could be seen as 

 the canoes skirted the shore lines. Slate lake was reached 

 about midafternoon, a beautiful body of water with shores 

 of high rock every inch of the way. Then came portages, a 

 couple more small bass lakes which the map makers had 

 neglected to put in, and the party was in Lake Thomas, in 

 the southeasterly end of which they were to find as wondrous 

 a single piece of nature's work as the journey was to reveal. 



One of Nature's Wonders. 



Two islands lie side by side and the passage is between. 

 The shore line of each island is of rock, rising perpendicularly 



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