River Fishing 



swell the limpid volume in which they 

 lose themselves. 



Each of these young rivers is washed 

 after it is born, before it hurries to be mar- 

 ried to the greater one. Luckily all are 

 rebaptized, too, with names more Christian 

 than those of their sources. Saguenay, be- 

 fore leaving Lake St. John, might call it- 

 self Ouiatchouan ; St. Maurice runs away 

 from its birth-name of Nabescoutianel ; 

 Nipissing, beginning as Tamangamingue, 

 ends in the French River ; and Nepigon 

 issues smooth and pronounceable out of 

 a cradle woven by fifteen distinct rivers, 

 from which an easy selection presents the 

 pleasing puzzles of Kawabatongwa, Pagit- 

 chigano, Katchangatinawi, and Pickitigou- 

 ching. 



Urged by that " zeal of propagandism 

 and the fur-trade," which the historian 

 calls the vital forces of New France, the 

 region about Lake Superior was early pene- 

 trated by both the converting and the bar- 

 tering nomads, the pursuit of souls being 

 sometimes combined with that of peltries. 

 At the Sault, through which the lake dis- 

 charges, the faith was preached in 1641 to 

 two thousand assembled Chippewas ; and 

 this mission, as well as another at the 

 western end of the lake, is spoken of by 



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