112 FISHING WITH THE FLY. 



turned up in the shape of "Jim," a colored youth of 

 sixteen, as black as the ten of spades, but no less cele- 

 brated for his culinary skill than for his impish tricks 

 and imperturbable good humor and honesty. To ban- 

 ish formality once for all, and put things upon an easy 

 and familiar footing at the start, I christened the M.D. 

 " Squills " and the lawyer " Bluffy," out of compliment 

 to his usual style of treating witnesses in court. In 

 deference to my advanced age and general good looks, 

 the boys called me " G-overnor," I being then about 

 fifty-three and neither of them thirty. Our supplies, 

 consisting of a ten by twelve tent, three camp beds and 

 bedding, two small boats, a stock of provisions for six 

 men for two weeks, one rifle, two fowling pieces, and 

 our fishing tackle, were soon got together, and in twen- 

 ty-four hours from the first proposal, we were ready to 

 take the cars for Collingwood. At that point we se- 

 cured an ample supply of ice ; and then embarked with 

 our traps on board a steamer bound for Duluth and in- 

 termediate ports, and touching at St. Ignace on her way. 

 This island is situated in Canadian waters, about 

 thirty-five miles from the mouth of Nepigon River, 

 forty-seven miles east of the famous Silver Islet and 

 some seventy from Thunder Bay. I say island, but 

 there are in fact two called St. Ignace ; the largest be- 

 ing about sixteen miles long by ten wide ; with gener- 

 ally bluff shores and high headlands, one of these rising 

 to a height of thirteen hundred and fifty feet above the 

 lake level. The smaller island, at which steamers 



