108 OBSERVATIONS ON A SALMON RIVER 



or Lazy Bogan section, also equipped with a 

 log-hut, which must have been some twenty- 

 miles farther. The Middle Camp section 

 contained some magnificent pools, which 

 always yielded fine sport early in the season. 

 After that they became less productive — 

 I cannot help thinking, owing to the interest 

 taking in them by the timber-drivers. The 

 Upper section was wonderful: there were 

 good holding pools above and below the 

 camp ; but in order to reach this you had not 

 only to face a long journey up-stream, but 

 to surmount the Indian Rapid, much the 

 most formidable obstacle of the kind on the 

 whole river, owing to its length and the ex- 

 treme roughness of the water. The ascent 

 of this rapid involved a most arduous, not 

 to say dangerous, piece of poling. I used 

 generally to leave the canoe and follow the 

 trail on the river bank until the top of the 

 rapid was reached. The men were only too 

 glad to be relieved of the necessity of carry- 

 ing an extra ten stone up the rapid. The 

 latter consideration did not apply to the 



