WAPITAGUN 



doubles a sharp cape, forces her way through 

 a narrow pass; and lo! before you opens the 

 noble harbour of Whapati Guan. All around 

 was calm and solemn ; the waters were smooth 

 as glass, the sails fell against the masts, but 

 the impetus which the vessel had received 

 urged her along. The lead was heaved at every 

 yard, and in a few minutes the anchor was 

 dropped." 



The harbor of Wapitagun. is a long, pro- 

 tected passage between Wapitagun on the 

 north and Misstassini and other islands on the 

 south and east. Wapitagun itself is a great 

 island about three miles long by over a mile 

 broad. It is a region of rocks and bogs, of 

 pools and lakes, of lichens and mosses, arctic 

 flowers and creeping birch and spruce. In 

 one of the lakelets in a flat barren was a pair 

 of red-throated loons that rose into the air at 

 my approach, and flew about high overhead, 

 croaking dismally. Their son and heir in his 

 coat of light-brown furry down had left the 

 nest, and was vigorously swimming about. 

 The old birds were dressed alike, and wore a 

 handsome livery, pure white below, relieved 

 only by a broad strip of terra-cotta red on the 

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