164 "LA GEANDE DECHAKGE" OF LAKE ST. JOHN 



mediately below la premiere chute, how intense was 

 the excitement we were later to experience in the 

 boiling waters of the Yache Caille and of Gervais and 

 at the whirlpool of Isle Maligne ! Hounding a couple 

 of points below Camp Scott, where many happy nights 

 were spent in the seasons of 1890 and 1891 in the 

 company of American angling friends including that 

 cultured gentleman and accomplished fisherman, Mr. 

 C. E. Miller, of the New York Times; Charles A. 

 Bryan, F. M. Underbill, and John B. Doris, of the 

 same city ; A. D. Warner, of Wilmington ; Major J. B. 

 Horbach, of Washington, and Morris R. Eddy, of 

 Chicago the branch of the current taken by our ca- 

 noemen turned abruptly at right angles, after striking 

 and rebounding from another island ; and then, after 

 an all too brief run with the velocity of a lightning 

 express down a mighty rushing torrent, we were 

 again dashing through the ups and downs of heavy 

 rapids, to find ourselves, shortly after passing the 

 mouth of the River de Chicot, in a labyrinth of chan- 

 nels that wash the shores of hundreds of islands of 

 various shapes and sizes, all extremely picturesque in 

 appearance and most beautifully wooded. The intri- 

 cate windings of these various divisions of the stream 

 were in no way confusing to the guides, who paused 

 but once or twice in their passage amid them, then 

 for but a moment at a time, to take a hasty review of 

 the various routes that opened up before them, in 

 order to select that whose rapids in the present con- 

 dition of the current offered the simplest and safest 

 passage for the descent of the canoes. 



Many of these rapids were exceedingly beautiful, 



