THE LAUEENTIDES PARK 



The unit for rapid travel is three men 

 in a light canvas-covered canoe, and 

 everything but actual necessaries must 

 be sternly rejected if the party is to go 

 straight forward without doubling at 

 the portages. The order of march is, one 

 man for the canoe, one for the tent, pro- 

 visions, and cooking outfit, and the 

 " Monsieur" going light, with personal 

 baggage, blanket and such other trifles 

 as rifle, glasses, rod and camera. Tra- 

 velling in a northerly or southerly direc- 

 tion there are waterways which may be 

 more or less utilized, and it is much 

 easier to go from the St. Lawrence to 

 Lake St. John than it is to cross the 

 Park from west to east, although the 

 distance, as the loon flies, is about the 

 same. A rather careful estimate of the 

 time required for the latter trip was fif- 

 teen days, and it would be fifteen days 

 of exceedingly arduous work, with every 

 kind of hard going that the wildest and 

 wettest country can afford, and without 

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