24 THE Aroosrook Woops. 

which there were several to pass over before reaching their 
well-known camping ground at the head of a still water, and 
at the foot of the rips and falls, lying above. 
I should be pleased to give a further account of their move- 
ments during their long stay, but was not well informed of 
the particulars. They undoubtedly found plenty of fish and 
game, for at the time, and even to this day, there are plenty 
of salmon-trout in the stream near where they were camping, 
and numerous deer, with small game, in the forest beside it. 
The Indian a good hunter and superior canoeman, was well- 
known to be trusty and faithful. Very late in the fall just 
before the lakes froze over, they returned, and at this time 
the white man remarked he could easily have carried the 
Indian had it been necessary. His consumption had ‘‘ evapo- 
rated.” 
I believe, that from the moment of starting from the lake 
shore, the Indian’s patient began to improve. Out of the 
house and close rooms, under the clear blue sky, on the bright 
waters, everything is so changed. At the first dip of the- 
paddle, as the birch bark canoe moved out upon the lake and 
he heard the merry slap of the waters against the sides, the 
Indian saw his eye brighten, and a better glow upon his 
cheek. The easy, soothing motion of the canoe, like a 
cradle as she danced over the waves, settling down so easily 
from a large one, rising again like a wild duck high upon the 
summit of the next, just as it breaks, sending its white spray 
in the air, but not to wet the patient, for the expert canoeman 
sees every large comber coming and with an extra pull with 
his paddle, sends her away by, or balances right upon the 
crest, when she settles down with it like a gull, to gaily rise 
again as before. 
