182 THE PEKIBONCA AND TSCHOTAGAMA 



direction the lake is approached. The shortest route 

 from Lake St. John is that by way of the Peribonca 

 River, and it is also that most prolific of thrilling ad- 

 venture, because of the rapid, precipitous descent of the 

 waters of this mighty stream. Either the ascent to or 

 the descent from Tschotagama should be by way of the 

 Peribonca, though there are innumerable other routes 

 from both east and west, all possessing special attrac- 

 tions for the angler. Of the few white men who pre- 

 vious to 1892 had camped upon the shores of Lake 

 Tschotagama, Mr. Wm. Hayes, Assistant City Attorney 

 of London, England, and Mr. Eugene McCarthy, of 

 Syracuse, N. Y., reached it in 1890, by way of the Mis- 

 took River, from the Grand Discharge, and returned 

 to Lake St. John by the Peribonca. Some have gone 

 there by way of the Shipshaw, and others again by the 

 River des Aulnaies. Messrs. E. J. Myers, barrister, 

 and A. "W. Koehler, of New York City, ascended to 

 Tschotagama in July, 1891, by way of the Peribonca, 

 which was the route that I selected in August, 1892, on 

 the occasion upon which I visited the lake in company 

 with Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard, D.S.O. a 

 model sportsman, a charming camping companion, a dis- 

 tinguished raconteur, and still more distinguished sol- 

 dier, an ex-governor of pestilential Massowah, and, like 

 his younger but more widely known brother, Rider, a 

 successful and entertaining novelist, as all will gladly 

 testify who have read Dodo and 7, Ada Triscott, or 

 Tempest Torn. Colonel Haggard has travelled and 

 fished in every quarter of the globe, but so impressed 

 were we both with the magnificent grandeur and some- 

 what perilous adventures of the ascent of the Peribonca 



