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from St. George Bay direct to White Bay in order to visit 

 a white priest/ or by going from one of the sources of the 

 Upper Humber across the main range to Bonne Bay in order 

 to visit their relations.'^ The western branch-route led upward 

 and outward from the sources of White Bear River to St. 

 George Bay, the Bay of Islands, Hall Bay, and Bonne Bay, 

 where Englishmen and Micmacs associated with one another. 



The main trunk-route led beyond Crooked Lake to a lake (2) nor^/i- 

 called Island Lake, which is the most northerly water belonging ^/f^J^ ^ ''^ 

 to the southerly water-system, and is believed at times to Exploits or 

 overflow into Noel Paul's Brook, which falls into the Exploits ^J^^l^ ^^., 

 a little below Red Indian Lake. This is the route which the this being 

 Micmacs followed in their war against the Beothics, and the ^^J^^^, '^'^^ 

 Beothics named Noel Paul's Brook ' Shannoc Brook', Shannoc route or 

 being the name by which they knew the Micmacs. The ' grand '^^^^ ^^' 

 route ' led straight into the heart of the enemy's country, and 

 was therefore a war-route and was not used by the Micmacs 

 in times of dubious peace. The neighbouring route by Great 

 Rattling Brook also led to the Exploits, but to one of its lower 

 reaches, and was therefore less useful in war though equally 

 dangerous in so-called peace. Newfoundland Dog Lake, 

 which is on the summit of the main trunk route, is only within 

 half a mile ^ of the source of the Gander River, which flows 

 into Notre Dame Bay east of the Exploits, and also opens 

 towards the east into a lake which furnishes a waterway to 

 within a few miles of an inlet in Bonavista Bay miscalled 

 Freshwater Bay ; so that the descent of the Gander led direct 

 to Notre Dame Bay, which their enemies frequented, and 

 made Bonavista Bay, which was now English, almost equally 

 accessible to the wanderer. Indeed, thirty years ago it was 

 a common fallacy to suppose that the Gander flowed into 

 both bays, and that Cape Freels was on a large island enclosed 



' Jukes, op. cit., vol. i, p. 174. 



'^ Royal Geographical Society Journal , 1864, vol, xxxiv, p. 263. 

 2 J. G. Millais, Newfoundland and its untrodden ways, 1907, p. 230; 

 Murray and Howley, op. cit,, p. 217. 



