124 Hunting Trip after Caribou 



of the rainbow; the evergreens intermingled 

 with the many-colored leaves of the hard-wood, 

 making a picture that baffles description. The 

 current being strong the boats glided swiftly 

 over the rapids, mile after mile through deep 

 gorges and around short turns, with always 

 interesting things to be seen by a student of 

 nature. The salmon would dart for cover as 

 the boat passed along. Occasionally ducks 

 feeding along the shore would take wing, with 

 a quack, quack, skim over the water, and dis- 

 appear around a bend. 



To adapt the language of Longfellow in 

 his description of the Rhine: there is hardly 

 a mile in the whole course of the Restigouche, 

 from its cradle in the highlands of New Bruns- 

 wick to its grave in the sands of Chaleur 

 Bay, which boasts not its peculiar charms. 



