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foot of the mountains near the outlet there are sandy- 

 beaches, affording splendid camping-grounds. As we 

 advance towards the east the mountains are higher 

 and rise abruptly out of the water, which in places is 

 of very great depth. To be closed in by the moun- 

 tains surrounding this lake during a violent thunder- 

 storm is indeed an experience, and the apparently- 

 never-ending reverberations of the thunder among the 

 hills, once heard, is never likely to be forgotten. Lake 

 Tschotagama is the home of giant ouananiche and of 

 monster pike and trout. A forty-nine-pound pike was 

 here slain by Mr. "Wilham Hayes in 1890. Mr. E. J. 

 Myers, of New York, tells of one that he killed in 1891 

 that measured fifty-two inches in length and weighed 

 forty-seven pounds, and of a trout, taken by him here, 

 seven pounds in weight. There hangs upon the wall 

 of the Hotel Eoberval the skin of a ouananiche 

 twenty-seven inches in length. It onoe covered the 

 body of one of a pair of eight-pound fish taken in 

 Tschotagama in July, 1891, by Mr. Myers. Some 

 four-pounders fell there to my rod in August, 1892, 

 but they were few and far between, until our guides, 

 having unsuccessfully urged us to substitute small 

 phantom minnows for our flies, cut open the fish that 

 we had already caught, and showed us that their 

 stomachs were full of sticklebacks. That settled 

 the point, and proved beyond peradvpnture that small 

 fish and not flies are the principal food of the heavy 

 ouananiche in this great northern lake. 



Far away north, near the source of the Peribonca, is 

 a very much larger lake, known as Manouan, and that 

 only two or three white men have ever visited. It is 



