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winds sweep over the barrens and 

 through the mountain gorges with great 

 force, and render canoeing on the broad- 

 er waters dangerous. Sometimes too 

 a whirlwind, in the speech of the coun- 

 try a sorcier, appears unannounced even 

 in fine weather, and although the dis- 

 turbance is very local, it is violent 

 enough to upset the canoe that encoun- 

 ters it. The sandy margin which bore 

 our tracks of the night before, and which 

 the moose and caribou had made their 

 highway before we disturbed them, was 

 frozen, so that every footprint of man 

 and animal seemed to be cut there 'in 

 stone. A dense and chilly mist lay over 

 the water, and the drops from the 

 paddles froze on the gunwale. However 

 beautiful were the slow revelations of 

 islands and wooded promontories, and 

 the glow of the early sun on rising mist- 

 wreath and hillside splendid with 

 autumn colours, it was pleasant to land, 

 to straighten out cramped knees and 



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