18 THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES 



into a monument. They were disappointed however, to 

 find that I would by no means give whiskey to natives, 

 and my treat had to take a wholly different form. 



Grand Rapids, with its multiplicity of perfectly 

 round pot-hole boulders, was passed in four days, and 

 then, again in company with the boats, we entered the 

 real canyon of the river. 



Down Athabaska's boiling flood 

 Of seething, leaping, coiling mud. 



