Alice stands out as a bright diamond among all the myriad 

 of lakes the commission viewed. 



Camp that night was made on an island in Lake Alice more 

 because the beauties held the tourists there than because 

 anyone was worn out, for not much distance had been cov- 

 ered that day. The next morning saw the slip over the waters 

 of Alice to the mouth of the Kawishiwi river, pronounced by 

 the English speaking as "Cashaway." In Indian the name 

 means Long Rapids. 



Word was given, as the mouth of the river was reached 

 that the party was in the moose country at last, and might 

 expect to see these big fellows at any minute. 



First Moose Is Sighted. 



It was near noon that day when the first moose were 

 sighted. They were in a small creek which flows into a lake 

 through which the river passes about 10 miles from its mouth. 

 Two canoes passed by without seeing these moose, two cows. 

 All three canoes passed within an eighth of a mile of them. 



Two black objects in the stream attracted one man's at- 

 tention. They did not move and the canoe passed on, but the 

 man who had sighted them insisted on backing water. Once 

 more off the mouth of the creek one of the cows stirred a 

 bit and the signal was given to call back the other canoes. 



A bit of thicket was placed between the canoes and the 

 moose and, the wind happening to be right, the canoes 

 sneaked up. Two canoes stopped at the thicket but the other 

 with the photograph in the bow made around a point and 

 started up the creek. 



The two canoes were halted within 150 feet of the cows. 

 The other rounded the point and crept up within 75 feet and 

 then one man, keen on not missing a thing, climbed out of 

 his canoe and attempted to sneak across the land to the creek 

 which would put him some 25 feet nearer. He tripped in the 

 bushes and went down with a crash. The cows heard, threw 

 up their heads, and stalked rather slowly and majestically up 

 the side of the creek and disappeared. Like as not their 

 calves were close by. 



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