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large variety of fish, and fowl are to be found. Duck 

 in great numbers haunt this locality, as well as snipe 

 and plover, which select this retired northern situation 

 as a breeding place, where they can safely raise their 

 timid, helpless families, without fear of the constant 

 intrusion of the much-dreaded lords of creation. 



From Toronto proceed to the village of Orillia, at the 

 head of Lake Simcoe. At this pretty little place you will 

 have no difficulty in procuring one of the Chippewa 

 Indians from the village of Rama, on the other side of 

 the lake, to undertake the duties of Palinurus, for a 

 moderate remuneration. All of these redskins may 

 safely be trusted, and they will be found, not only 

 excellent hunters and trappers, but very obliging, as 

 long as you keep them from the curse of their race, 

 whiskey. Of course, as soon as they leave civilisation, 

 they cannot obtain their dire enemy unless you should 

 give it, or, what is equally culpable, leave it in their 

 way. How I became acquainted with this region was 

 strange and unlocked for. Some years since, having 

 business in Toronto, I was detained longer than I 

 expected, and got both out of funds and out at elbows. 

 Returning from the Post Office much disappointed and 

 disgusted at the dilatoriness of my friends, I turned 

 into a tavern to have a glass of ale, when I chanced to 

 run foul of a former acquaintance who had turned 



