ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CANADA 



plored by my brother in 1892) for a distance of about sixteen 

 miles, until we reached the hunting trail, of which he had 

 been informed by the Indians, leading away to the north- 

 ward. This place until now had been our objective point, and 

 the way to it was known ; but beyond this point we knew noth- 

 ing of the road, or of the country through which it would 

 lead us, excepting for the first few days' travel, to which the 

 Indians' description, quoted at the beginning of this narra- 

 "tive, would apply. Trom this point northward, for a distance 

 of one hundred miles or thereabouts, we had expected to be 

 ^ided by that old humbug Moberly, but he having deserted 

 Tis, we were now dependent on our own resources. 



NECK DEVELOPED BY THE TUMP-LINE. 



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