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through the forest on the chance of seeing any 

 game, when he was to communicate with me. 

 Lansdown and Thomson went up in Lans- 

 down's canoe, but spent most of their time 

 in the water hauling it over the many rapids. 

 My Indians were splendid boatmen and poled 

 up all but one of the rapids. The river has a 

 considerable fall from the lake, and heavy 

 rapids and miniature cataracts alternate with 

 deep pools an ideal fishing water. 



Without stopping to fish, I trailed a small 

 Tacomah spoon behind the canoe and got 

 twelve cut-throat trout, weighing 9 fib., by the 

 time we entered the lake. 



The scenery, as pure river scenery, was 

 superb the whole way, the banks being clothed 

 with dense forest through which the river 

 rushed and tumbled on its short course to 

 the sea. It reminded me very much of the 

 scenery on the Kippewa River in Eastern 

 Canada. The river opened out as we ap- 

 proached the lake, and the scenery as we en- 

 tered the lake was, if possible, more beautiful 

 than that we had passed through. 



To the south extended the Nimquish Lake 

 as far as the eye could see. The perennial 

 snow of the Vancouver Mountains formed an 

 impressive background, while a dense forest 

 clothed the sides of the steep hills, which in 



