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amount of fur that he formerly did. He does not seem 

 to relish company very much, unless the visitor brings 

 him a " bottle " ; and in that case, he's given a hearty 

 reception. He has not been seen by any one since last 

 June, when he visited Barkerville. 



Kibbee built a cabin on the upper end of Isaac's Lake 

 some years since, and also a boat. The next time he 

 visited the lake the canny Scot called at the cabin to 

 tell him that his boat had been smashed by a big storm 

 during his absence ; but Kibbee found more signs of 

 destruction by human hands than those made by a 

 storm. The incident was a forcible suggestion that in- 

 truders were not wanted on that particular sheet of 

 water. 



It is just possible that on some future visit to the lake 

 the old Scotchman's bones may be found whitening in 

 his cabin. He has been living the life of a recluse up 

 there for forty- three years, coining to the outskirts of 

 civilization once, and sometimes twice, in a year to dis- 

 pose of his furs and get his " bottle " and supplies, and 

 then to return to his wilderness home. 



We had planned to make a portage of four miles from 

 a small lake, called McCleary's Lake, over to Isaac's 

 Lake, striking the latter lake fifteen miles from its head. 

 We would then build a raft, and, after visiting Mc- 

 Cloud, paddle and pole to the end of Isaac's Lake, 

 where we would take a trail of sixteen miles for Indian 

 Point Lake, and this would bring us within seven miles 



