ACROSS THE SUB-AECTICS OF CANADA 



When the last loads for the week were laid down at camp, 

 we were a thoroughly tired party. Tor the past six days we 

 had labored on long portages, and during that time had car- 

 ried the entire outfit for a distance of about eight miles, over 

 the roughest kind of country, representing a total transport 

 of fifty-six miles, or a walk of 104 miles for each man. 

 Sunday was spent, therefore, by all in enjoying complete 

 rest. The weather continued fine and warm, as it had been 

 all week. 



STARTING OFF ON THE TRAIL 



During the succeeding day and a half, six little lakes and 

 as many short portages, leading in a northerly direction, 

 were crossed, and then, at noon on the 11th, "Wolverine Lake 

 was discovered and its geographical position determined. 

 This lake, only about three miles in width by six in length, 

 is by no means a large body of water, but because of its many 

 deep shore indentations and a consequent coast-line of forty 

 or fifty miles, it was thought by us to be large enough before 

 we discovered our road out of it, which we knew to be by the 

 ascent of a large river from the north. The shores of the 



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