SCHOONER CHANCE 59 



I Position At head of Tiyans Bay 

 Tuesday, August 2.4th. < Weather Cloudy with rain 



I Wind Northeast 



WE were discouraged to find it still cloudy in the morning. Our 

 plan had been to pick out a good high mountain and climb 

 it but the weather of course made this idea useless. Bob said he 

 thought he would go and catch a few of the trout the others had seen 

 in the lake last evening. Johnny and I decided to go with him. Terry 

 took us ashore (one mile because of the shoaling of the bay). We had 

 no sooner started than 1 noticed we had left the pack on the schooner. 

 Bob went back for it. Johnny and I went ahead having agreed to 

 meet him at the lake for lunch. The first mile was frightfully up and 

 down. The region is just a mass of sink-holes and river beds. Next, 

 we came to a level plateau covered with moss. Before going down to 

 the lake we had a smoke and waited a few minutes to see if Bob 

 would come along. We then decided to see if Church and Oily were 

 right about the valley running clear through to Ungava. We con- 

 tinued on the left hand side of the stream until both parts of the 

 fork of the valley were clearly visible. The right fork contained a 

 large lake (No Lunch Lake) and ended in a cirque. The left fork first 

 ran south and then tended to bend towards the east. I suppose the 

 water from Two Loon Lake and No Lunch Lake drained into the 

 lake in the "Region of the Iron Strand." There was not a sign of a 

 caribou. It was a hard plug on the way back, two hours and a half 

 before our first stop, with a head wind bringing alternately rain and 

 snow. Much to our disappointment there was no sign of Bob at the 

 lake. Both of us were nearly done but we somehow stumbled back 

 to the bay where we found Oily and Church ashore, the first looking 

 for birds, the second taking the temperatures of the rivers. Our walk 

 had been well over 20 miles. We reached the schooner about 7:30 

 having been on the go since 9 30 . Bob turned up an hour later with 

 seven good trout. 



