S/>ort in an Untouclied American ll'ilderness 



one like it eight years ago." He said 

 further, that, so far as he knew, no strange 

 canoe had come down from the unex- 

 plored headwaters of the stream in the 

 meantime. This incident illustrates the 

 infrequency of travel on those boisterous 

 mountain rivers, and is also a fine example 



of the bushman's accuracy of observation 

 and inference. 



Undoubtedly some of this unoccupied 

 domain, in common with other portions of 

 the great Canadian wilderness, will some 

 day be filled with human habitations ; but 



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