The Land of the Winanishe 



penses of a pilgrimage --by steamer --to 

 La Bonne Ste. Anne. As the tobacco is 

 passed, pipes are produced with a unanim- 

 ity that recalls the passage in Parkman de- 

 scribing the coureurs des bois who destroyed 

 Schenectady, every one of whom had " his 

 inseparable pipe hung at his neck in a 

 leather case/' And the dances ! Every- 

 one dances as if his character were at stake 

 and time of no value. The unsuspecting 

 Monsieur who joins in one of these com- 

 plicated contra-dances finds at the end of 

 three-quarters of an hour's effort that there 

 are more exhausting pleasures than a hard 

 portage. Story-telling and singing fill the 

 evening until with the parting song, Eon 

 soir, mes amis, bon soir, the guests troop off 

 to the canoes, and are safely carried to 

 the mainland across the turbulent Vache 

 Caille Eddy. 



The Club waters below Alma Island 

 are similar in character of fishing to the 

 Caron. A shady path through the woods 

 leads to the pools on the Petite Decharge; 

 but the easiest way is round by canoe, and 

 then, disembarking at the foot of the 

 Carcajou Rapid, to follow along the rocky 

 shore beneath the high clay bluffs which 

 here border the Petite Decharge on both 

 sides. The way leads alongside the rapid 



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