CHAPTER II 



TO LONG HARBOUR 



In planning my trip I had the benefit of 

 J. G. Millais' advice. He first recommended 

 me to try the country at the head of the La 

 Poile River on the south coast near Port aux 

 Basques. On inquiry I found out that canoes 

 could not be used. Everything would have 

 to be packed, and it would take six men to pack 

 to the hunting grounds. With the memory 

 of my Vancouver trip before me, I decided 

 against the La Poile country and packing, and 

 chose the ground Millais had hunted with such 

 success in 1906. He had gone in by the Long 

 Harbour River, struck off to the north-west 

 to Kesoquit and Shoe Hill Ridge and the Mount 

 Sylvester region. But the Long Harbour 

 River was very rough, and his canoes being at 

 Hungry Grove Pond, where a series of ponds 

 led up to Sandy Pond or Jubilee Lake, its more 

 modern name, I finally decided on this route, 

 which would bring me quite close to Shoe Hill 

 Ridge and Mount Sylvester. 



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