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in September ; whether to pay a second visit to the Terra 

 Nova country with the intention of penetrating to further 

 regions than I had hitherto reached, or to try my luck on 

 the Gander River, which was new ground to me. Hardy, 

 who was to be my companion, had left the choice in my 

 hands, and after I had seen five boatloads of these boisterous 

 voyagers hauling away out of sight over the grey-green 

 lake, the trouble of making up my mind on that head no 

 longer bothered me : I unhesitatingly made choice of the 

 Gander River. 



Thus it came to pass that, on a pouring wet morning, 

 the 4th of September, Hardy and I turned out of the train 

 at Glenwood, the station near the Gander Lake. All things 

 considered, there can be few more dejected-looking spots 

 in the world than Glenwood. Its few thin-chested wooden 

 houses stand dolefully alongside the metals ; a lumber mill 

 and some sheds make an untidy background ; the earth is 

 covered with splinters of wood and sodden with sawdust ; 

 through the valley, which is spanned by a trestle bridge, 

 the Gander rolls in quick water over a stony bed. The 

 romance of its name, Glenwood, has nothing to do with 

 fact ; even the beauty of the woods is absent, for fire and 

 axe have devastated them, and the place, standing exposed 

 to the wind, is both bleak and cold. 



Presently we discovered that Jack Wells and his com- 

 rades Bob Saunders and Ned Sweetapple, having arrived 

 the previous night, had set up a tent on the lake edge to 

 await our coming. Moreover, the men had " packed " all 

 our outfit to this spot, as it was close to the wooden wharf 

 from which the steamer owned by the Newfoundland Tim- 

 ber Company starts. Mr. Crowe, the manager, had kindly 

 given us permission to make use of this steamer. Owing 

 however, to the arrival of a large consignment of logs from 

 Gambo and a consequent pressure of work upon the employes 

 there had been some delay in the preparations and we did 



