OLD MURRAY BAY 



with the hook and line, but could catch no 

 fish . . . We met with a bank of snow from 

 four to six feet deep, although exposed to 

 the midday sun.' (July 2nd.) After some 

 toilsome marches he worked his way out be- 

 hind the Grand Lac, and took three hours 

 to walk round it to the first habitations at 

 the Petit Lac where he was glad to put up 

 at the house of Mr. Gaye 'very much 

 harrassed and fatigued'. 



Andrews' next attempt was to win to the 

 back country by the 'Malbay River'. Pur- 

 chasing a canoe, for which he had to pay 

 five dollars, and starting inauspiciously on 

 a Friday, he had much ado to make the 

 seigniorial line by nightfall — camping 'a 

 little above Harris's Saw Mill'. The next 

 day they laboured up the rapids (Andrews 

 scrambling along the bank) till the canoe 

 was half full of water and the men 'entirely 

 discouraged' . . . 'With a long and difficult 

 rapid before us to which we could see no 

 end' the struggle was abandoned. That it 

 was begun shows how little was known of 

 the Murray as a waterway. 



Striking out nor'eastward on the line of the 



Chemin des Marais it was the same story. 



'We had, for the most part, to walk upon 



fallen trees, crossing each other, three or 



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