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Round Lake. The Indians travel this route down but seldom up if they can 

 help it, on account of the strong current. Between Round Lake and the track 

 there are three portages, two of which have to be made, each about fifteen 

 chains, and a third about one mile long, which is made in preference to making 

 the trip around a big. bend in the river about ten miles around. The northerly- 

 tip of this bend crossed our line near our 108-mile post. This route is used for 

 comin g down from the Ogoki River, but is not travelled a great deal now. 



We were fortunate enough to be able to make a route close to our line 

 until we got over to the east of Big Lake or about ninety-two miles. From here 

 we had to go quite a bit north of our line until we got to Round Lake and the 

 Mud River and in between we had to do some fly camping on the line. From 

 the Mud River it was impossible to get our canoes east of the Jackfish River 

 as the country is rough and a mass of windfall and we would have had to take 

 our canoes down the Mud to the track and up the Jackfish. Our packers quit 

 us about the fourteenth day of September to go guiding for tourists when we 

 were at 108 miles so we continued our line easterly to the 115-mile post to the 

 east of Seymour Lake, where it can be easily picked up from the Jackfish, and 

 quit on the twenty-fourth day of September. We understand that this point 

 is about three miles east of the Jackfish River and we have arranged for a trail 

 to be blazed from the end of our line east to the Jackfish this winter. We had 

 taken a light camp in from the Mud River to east of our 112-mile post and on the 

 night of September 23rd, we had six inches of snow, which turned to slush and 

 rain the next day. It took us seven hours to backtrack to the Mud River the 

 next day through the snow and windfall. We went via the Mud River to the 

 track near Willet Station where we disbanded our party and stored our canoe a 



Game 



We did not see any sign of beaver all summer. Bears are very plentiful, 

 especially in the vicinity of Caribou Lake. Signs of moose and caribou were 

 seen but they are not plentiful. Mr. W. Bruce has a tourist camp where the 

 Mud River crosses the Canadian National Railways, about one mile east of Willet 

 Station. He has several canoes for use on the smaller streams and a gasoline 

 launch that he uses on Lake Nipigon. His camp is about two miles up the river 

 from Lake Nipigon. He takes tourists for speckled trout fishing during the summer 

 and big game during the fall. He has very good accommodation and runs a 

 small trading post as well. 



Commercial fishing is engaged in on Savant Lake and Caribou Lake. At 

 Savant Lake the most of the fishing is done in the fall as it is almost impossible 

 to get the fish out in the summer. From Caribou Lake there is only a short 

 portage of about twelve chains to Little Caribou Lake and from the lower end 

 of this lake the fish are taken to Armstrong by team. Lake trout, pickerel 

 and white fish are caught in these lakes. 



Pike and pickerel are very plentiful in all the lakes, but we did not find 

 speckled trout in any of the streams crossed. 



We had an exceptionally wet season. The only decent weather we had all 

 summer was the first two weeks of September. We had several hail storms 

 during the season and the usual summer frosts. Owing to the excessive rains, 

 the water in the lakes and creeks was exceptionally high all season. 



