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THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES 



Crow's Nest, Fort Smith Landing 



could resume our downward drift, and, worse than that, 



there was such a flood on the Peace River that it was 



backing the Athabaska, that is, the tide of the latter was 



reversed on the Rocher River, 

 which extends twenty-five 

 miles between here and Peace 

 mouth. To meet this, I 

 hired Colin Fraser's steamer. 

 We left Chipewyan at 6.15; 

 at 11.15 camped below the 

 Peace on Great Slave River, 

 and bade farewell to the 

 steamer. 



The reader may well be 

 puzzled by these numerous 



names; the fact is the Mackenzie, the Slave, the Peace, 



the Rocher, and the Unchaga are all one and the same 



river, but, unfortunate- ^«„^_ 



ly, the early explorers «>.- 



thought proper to give . ., 



it a new name each time 



it did something, such 



as expand into a lake. 



By rights it should be 



the Unchaga or Unjiza, 



from the Rockies to the Arctic, with the Athabaska 



as its principal southern tributary. 



The next day another Lynx was collected. In its 



stomach were remains of a Redsquirrel, a Chipmunk, 



and a Bog-lemming. The last was important as it 



made a new record. 



Female Lynx. June 6, 1907 



