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running before a strong breeze, reached an old 

 lumbering camp about a mile and a half from 

 the north-eastern end of the lake just as it -was 

 getting dark. ^\e saAv several caribou on the 

 shore of Lloyd's Lake in the evening, amongst 

 them a big stag. 



The following day being Sunday, and the 

 morning being very rainy, we remained at the 

 lumber camp, resting, and drying my skins by 

 the heat of an old stove, to which Smart, 

 with great ingenuity, had fitted several badly 

 damaged pieces of piping, and at last got into 

 good working order. In the evening the 

 weather again cleared up, and I watched several 

 caribou swim across the lake a little below the 

 hmibering camp. They might very easih' have 

 walked round the shore of the lake and crossed 

 the river at the end of it, which was less than 

 one hundred yards in breadth, but they plunged 

 into the Avater just where they struck it without 

 any hesitation, and swam right across (a distance 

 of over a mile) at marvellous speed. 



On Monday, October 30th, three caribou, a 

 young stag, a doe, and a last year's fawn, jumped 



