" MOLL YGO JACK." Ill 



rapids brouglit us to a fine lake, or " pond," as 

 all lakes are called in Newfoundland. This 

 sheet of water, which is two or three miles in 

 length and over a mile in breadth, is known as 

 Molly gojack, an Indian name, the meaning of 

 which I was unable to discover. After the 

 slow progress we had made during the last few 

 days in getting the canoes up the shallow, rock- 

 encumbered river it was a great relief to reach 

 open water once more. 



Whilst paddling up to the head of the lake 

 we saw a caribou a long way off walking slowly 

 along the shore. Presently he disappeared 

 behind a wooded point near the top end of the 

 lake and close, as we afterwards found, to the 

 mouth of the river which connects St. John's 

 Lake with Molly go jack. We now paddled as 

 hard as we could, and I landed in the shelter 

 of some wooded islands near the mouth of the 

 river, without having again seen the caribou. 



I lost no time in making my way across a 

 wooded promontory to a point of rocky ground 

 on the river's edge. After standing there for 

 some minutes without seeing anything I was 



