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last three men for twenty days, and I was 

 assured we would be helped out with game, 

 an occasional deer, ruffled grouse and plenty 

 of fish once we got into the forest. 



A man cannot carry a pack weighing more 

 than eighty pounds in the country we had to 

 traverse, and, having cut down everything 

 to the absolute necessaries of life, we still had 

 to make double trips to get our stuff into 

 camp, wasting a day each time. 



We got away in the afternoon and crossed 

 the Straits to the mouth of the Nimquish 

 River in an Indian canoe. About a mile up 

 the river was the comfortable log house of 

 B. Lansdown, a settler. We were lucky 

 enough to find him at home and he agreed to 

 be the third man of our party. At first the 

 idea was that he should help to pack in about 

 three marches to where we proposed to make a 

 permanent camp, and then return; but subse- 

 quent events compelled us to keep him the 

 whole time. He was a fourth mouth to feed 

 and at all times had a most excellent appetite. 



Having arranged with two Siwash Indians 

 to take us up to the lake, a distance of about 

 seven miles, the following morning, we accepted 

 Lansdown's invitation to put up at his house, 

 where we were most hospitably entertained. 



After some food at 5 o'clock I had my first 



