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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 Eraser'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 



