we were camped but all the Indians were away gathering wild 

 rice except one old Indian chief. 



Some Indians came to camp that day and gave us some cari- 

 bou meat. We lived high for that one day. 



As the steamer did not arrive Monday we went over to the 

 Indian village and found the old chief tanning a moose hide. 

 That night after it grew dark we heard a sound which resem- 

 bled somewhat the chug of a steamer. Of course we all left 

 our tents and ran across the portage. As we could see no 

 sign of a boat, we all listened intently. After much specula- 

 tion as to the origin of the sound which by this time had 

 grown weird, "Hy-yah" sounded across the waters of the bay 

 and we knew then that it was the old chief singing to an ac- 

 companiment played on a tom-tom. We supposed he was mak- 

 ing a desperate attempt to drive away his loneliness. 



We waited there for the steamer until Thursday and then 

 decided to finish our trip as we began, in our canoes. So we 

 set out for White Fish bay. We traveled until nine o'clock be- 

 fore finding a portage. We went only a short distance until 

 we came to another at the end of which there was a set of 

 headworks. 



After dinner that day we came to a lumber camp where we 

 were able to secure provisions to last us to the end of the trip. 



Another portage that afternoon brought us into White Fish 

 bay from which we portaged over into the Lake of the Woods. 



At the end of our last portage we found an Indian settlement; 

 also an alligator (a boat used for towing logs) and some wani- 

 gans. Here we learned that a Keenora hotelkeeper had taken 

 some prospectors up that way in a launch and we decided to 

 try to get him to take us to Keenora. We were just about to 

 pitch our tents when he came along and said we could go with 

 him. We were glad to shorten our trip but we were sorry to 

 cross Lake of the Woods at night. 



We arrived in Keenora about two o'clock the next morning. 

 We spent a day sight-seeing there and another one in Winni- 

 peg. We came home via the Canadian Northern. 



In discussing this trip with some of my friends, they have 



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