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the devil if I was to meet him." But tradition says 

 that the Indians warned him truly, and that in de- 

 scending the heavy rapids of the discharge of Lake St. 

 John his canoe was overturned, both he and his family 

 were drowned, and the murder of the "river -man" 

 was avenged. 



About a week's journey up the river are the Grosse 

 Chaudiere Falls, or rather succession of falls, varying 

 in height from ten to thirty feet each. Several years 

 ago, so the Indians say, a sorcerer, after making cer- 

 tain incantations, shot safely over all this series of 

 frightful falls in his canoe. At the foot of the big 

 falls is a splendid pool for ouananiche, from which 

 some very large specimens of the fish have been taken 

 by ]\Ir. B. A. Scott, the late Dr. Lundj-, and others. 

 It is possible that they may be found still higher up 

 the stream, but I have not been able to obtain any 

 positive proof of their existence there. 



The upper waters of this ri ver are referred to in the 

 chapter on Lake Mistassini. 



