62 A SPORTING PARADISE 



loveliness. Here is an ideal camping-ground, 

 and one can picture the pioneer cutting out for 

 himself a rude home and living. The mind tries 

 to imagine the conditions during the cold bright 

 days of winter the snow-clad earth and ice- 

 bound water. A sportsman of some refinement 

 and artistic taste can hardly resist the temptation 

 to put in his claim for the 140 acres and dwell 

 here for ever. We must remember, however, 

 in our enthusiasm that lovely scenery requires 

 the observer to be fortified with materials neces- 

 sary for existence. The impression conveyed 

 to my mind was associated with personal 

 comforts, viz., modern clothing, modern guns, 

 provisions, etc., guides and servants, and a 

 college friend food for the body, and food 

 for the mind ; but where everything must be 

 done by one's own efforts, trees cut down, a 

 house built, wood chopped, fires lit, food pro- 

 duced and cooked, etc., common sense disabuses 

 the mind. 



" The direction taken by the boats was the 

 same as that I had previously followed in company 

 with Mr. Kendall, and recalled to mind many a 

 sturdy pull and frantic scare from a bush-fire. 



" We landed at the same bay that 1 have 



