CHAPTER IV 



HUNGRY GROVE POND TO SANDY POND 



THE morning of the 31st was bright and cold, 

 though rain had fallen in the night, and we got 

 away about 9 o'clock. One hour's steady 

 paddling and rowing, for the larger canoe had 

 oars, took us to the north end of Hungry Grove 

 Pond, about three miles I should say, from 

 which issued a brook communicating with Red 

 Hill Pond. The water was very low and the 

 men spent most of their time in the water 

 dragging the canoes over the rocky shallows. 

 I strolled along the bank and saw many old 

 tracks of caribou, but nothing fresh. We had 

 one portage of about half-a-mile, to pass some 

 bad rapids. The brook was about two miles 

 long and owing to the bad water and portage 

 it took us some two hours to get down to Red 

 Hill Pond. We named the brook the Two 

 Mile Brook. Millais had shown a communi- 

 cation between Hungry Grove Pond and Red 

 Hill Pond in his map of the district, but never 

 having travelled over the line we were taking 



he could not show details. 



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