August 24, 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



63 



raised ourselves simultaneously, leveled together, and tired 

 H-sonegun. For Hit mcanem m Could uot determine the 

 effect of our (shoes, 90 great waa the confuaion among the 



skurrving birds, healing the w tiler into foam with their wings. 

 Bui When -we did s«. il,'lheexelaniation"Well done, by Jove," 

 from the stnid shot of the cove gave me fi. Enller idea tlein 

 I could gather from the number of binds floating dead just 

 before us. Zou eould I race as accurately as if you had fired 

 along a snowbank, the direct ion of each shot. Three Kfsta 

 of dead bil'dalayin the nook, and wounded ones almost in 

 numerable hobbled around, and shinned off, making the be -t 

 of their way with trailing wings and broken legs, I ich not 

 ,.1 as many to show on the rigtri 

 companions had; nor when they 

 gun. and pro- 



a, little pride to see that 1 ha 

 id (lie nook as either 

 both for the first time oritii 



nouueed It ii' be able 



Immediately on the 

 went the thre i rj igs fti 

 task whs too heavy, a, 

 in the .summer for mi 

 for shooting purposes. 

 those wounded which 



! of the. 



slatigh 



MS. nor r 



This heii 



of bird-, went up fb 



quite so ten 11 J ins u 



efj • *awq - 



: sad Li double thai 

 He iili and they \m 



day by ieil, be 



"pitch shot pretty 



ii began fete 



id we laune 

 jrhig thelat 

 Thenumbi 



ve followed i 



rail.' 

 us. over the rock 

 1 birds. But the 

 tie -.v.dn-7 k.'pt 



eis that struggle with the tierce tempests in these dangerous 

 waters. The wind blew straight in from the sea upon us for 

 ten days, and during that time the sea spray rained inces- 

 santly, like a continuous rainstorm, upon the roof of our 

 littl i welling. 



The da vs were dreary enough, though mv companions 

 found much solace in their pipes, a pack of card", and m 

 lighting over again the battles of Alexanderand of Napoleon 

 upon the Chess-board. 1 had two books— a copy of Tenny- 

 son and "David Uopperfield." I cannot tell how affected 1 

 was reading for the first time, in the midst of the siorm, the 

 recital of the shipwreck at Portsmouth, where the destroyer 

 and the lover of "lit tie Emily" both perished: how the 

 mighty green waves, curling and smoking, and breaking 

 with the crash of thunder and furiously assaulting the grim 

 rocks, reminded me of the. great waves that annihilated 

 Steerforth's ship and beat the life out of the noble-hearted 

 Ham. But af'er the inland gale had subsided, and the 

 storm began to pipe over the cliffs, out from the land, the 

 isea seemed to sleep at the base of the hill: 



ad shot also, reached 

 Sighing less than seven pounds. } 

 1 lor one day. each took a load 

 cliff-path- -'which did not look I 

 it— and on to the cove. I took j 



perhaps, exposed to 

 hungrily id large nu 

 kind that, inhabit the - 



eh had weathered it out, famishing 

 the violent storms, came in singing 

 tbers. But as birds of nearl\ ■ every 

 oast waters— the harlequin duck (Ms- 



led locally "lords and ladies;" long- 



hung i 



cool pc 



-li 



xpedi- 

 l indeed summing up the total luck of 

 my companions such fortune as on the 

 Perhaps it was the "biggest shot" of 



and when thoroughly snaked and proper]} cooked, arc little 

 inferior to the choicest members of the duck family. 



During my stay c 

 lions. Iml at none, i 

 all these, hail f wit! 

 morning at the lilt 

 the winter on that part of the coast. 



One morning during my stay, the wind having blown 

 in-shorc for some days. I resolved to cro-s 1'ne narrow penin- 



\a " i "try Westward Cove.'' We sel nut, Peter and 

 myself, about an hour before the dawn, Pett r baying slightly 

 overslept himself, A tramp of lour miles lay before us. 



through deep snow and over marshes not aodet ply covered, 

 but supplying, asan offset to depth, a provoking crust, which 

 always wouUl nearly bear yon, hut never would quite bear 

 you. Toilsome, and maddening it was this get up and break 

 through again, every step to the knee, o\er two miles of 

 marsh; and to make matters ■worse, before we reached the 

 point of descent to the rock il was so brighi that we must 

 betray ourselves to any birds ill I he bight. 



We crept cautiously to the bank, and saw a dozen birds or 

 so within easy range of our firing plaee. and after my com- 

 panion had looked upon them ft minute, be exclaimed All 



right— 'sleepy divers' W, "II j i a shot ■•' unless U BaiS 



aire hounds around." (The "hounds" 1 -aiistiecl ne, - 



the long-tailed duck, H,j ■ Id . , '. '' Chi ' ■■ , livi 



gets the name from tie sleepy look it has. and ihc cOnipara- 



five ease with which vou can get a -hot at ii ci pared tc 



other ducks around the coast. ' The bird is really thl Ameri- 

 can scoter— ffldmiia atn&kmm. Wo la 

 a few minutes, after which mv pr 

 ' Then, when the s 



ittsl 



of bounds in full chase; surf duck (l''l>»i«-<l« i >--V'"^'">"\ 

 called by the fishermen "bottle-nosed diver," the "sleepy 

 diver." mentioned elsewhere in this paper, also the "Ameri- 

 can eider duck;" the king eider (fi.,,.,,1, r/e .•.,..,',■, ' ., , : ,. : .| 

 name "king duck." and the red-breasted mrnon.-,-, , ).' , .. 

 KLrrnlnr), called in Xr w foundlainl the "shell bird." Iiesides 

 the "sea. pigeon," or black guillemot ( I'rin r/n/l/r). little auk 

 (jUnyuluattUf), called "bull bird." and .several others which 

 I cannot just now call to mind — as all these, I sav, came in, 

 it was impossible to move in trying to get a shot al some 

 birds for the time under water after the shell fish with- 

 out disturbing the rest; for alarm hut. one bird while all 

 the rest are clown, and they too take the alarm, many fath- 

 oms deep among the rock 'nooks at the liottom of the sea, 

 and when they rise it will not be at the point where you 

 saw them dive, but quite beyond the range of your duck 

 shot. 



Wc got, about, fifteen birds of two or three different kinds 

 however, not a great number, but, considering the wealher, 

 about as good as might be expected. I may SO} thai on the 



covered ruck, every now and again a dash of spray coming 

 into my face, wailing for a pair of bottle-nosed divers to 

 come in range, when something rose about ten . ,r,l oul 

 from the rock like the bottom of one of those old-fashioned 

 pots or skillet,. I knew it, was alive and swimming, and 

 that is all I knew about it, but feeling instinctively that it 

 " iled, tired and knocked the daylight out of 



■ep. 



TI: 



c toldmetlu: 



i the bank foj 



i fourl 



of tin 



■ des 



roy 



the 



live 



,s of rocks : 

 sportsman m 



S 'placed" 

 iy lie withe 



rof 



i.ompai 



Id. wh. 



ogs did 



■no hound 

 did si mulls 

 would pern 

 ourselves t 



dogs doing 

 neither lea 

 down agail 

 duck in thi 

 screen in tl 

 points beside whirl 

 recognition^ 



That day we got fi 

 three; but what, ihavfl 10 I 

 tion with the trip is, whai 

 pretty heavy sea running at 

 not, mind this. The dog of 

 saw the sea curled up ready 

 come out all. right on the oil 

 smoother places, and in lis 

 mercy of every sea,. He Inn 

 swimming out, a third time. 

 and threatening. Jly dog v 

 rock and the sea, about, mid 

 its base, he raised bis head I 

 side, to it. swimming along i 

 and 1 saw him through the 

 goading roek edge. When 

 he was badly stunned and 



was too far for me to reach him even had 1 the appliance, so 

 1 knew he was doomed. 



stablished fact 



erside: but i 

 turbulent 

 brought in 



when a huge 



vey "and ins 



nvde : 



waters, 

 two bi 

 Sea curled 



1 jrg.g; p 

 lead of di 

 and then t 



was at the 



Is and was 



p green 



ip-.ting 



riK d I: is 



nst, the 



saw that. 



jedhr. lie 



, , , : I hut evening for my dinner, the former 1 lee! -t.- !„ 

 ited into a pair of boots. ' 



It will not. 1 shall venture, to assume, make a joint in this 

 .•cita! of a winter's ramble to annihilate a few Weeks of 

 me spent under more civilized atmosphere and recount an 

 ^edition attended with fatalities, later in the season. 

 There are a good many young men in Newfoundland who 

 .'Oitld like to shoot ducks in the cold weather, hut would 

 not care for braving the cold and 1he dangers at- 

 rfnto the cats that 

 but who will not hard- 

 So that it is hard sonie- 

 ! in March while tierce 



lendant upon the sport like 





• hip t 



1 knew i 



/after which 

 could not ch 



nhabited pi 



ft is a strange, yel a wnl1 e 

 myself more than n hundred 



upon the shores in a , net esgi 



been quite smooth 'or a i 



among these rocks, you se 

 and break; such sea will 

 others, after which the wate 

 another period 

 which struck 

 against the a 



and with a lea 



drift around tl 



In manv of 



round only in 



autumn, late, parlies of young men ?e 

 and proceed to points sometimes flfl 

 distant:, where, in a fn.vnivd spot, in 

 i he cliff, they erect, a shanty.,; W 

 in winter to watch and trail 

 many a night in one of these cozy littl 

 in ray blanket in a ooanfortablt buuli 



music of the -ea upon the beach and a 

 rocks ahou 



Before i 



others, we 



fifteen mil 

 situated a 



platform i 



300 feet u 



night. "W 



and had hi 



we chiefrv 



deep coating of pitch on 



where upon the naked CO 



the. ravages of the tcmpei 



ud 



od by 



the Windy crags, an 

 The "gai'iibircl" or J 



Shrink back into tl 



izedaparfyfroma: 

 few days to give the 

 lhavt -cod cai :■ 

 from the settlement. 

 dawn, and tie Btari 

 vault of heaven. 1 

 fall of snow, and a 

 times, on the level, 

 here and there, whi 



say 1 have often, in 

 fcheprccipiees np< 

 mark, found 1 was i 

 of the cliff. Such 



danger, as these ma 



who ffi 



•' and s 



eoasi I 1,1 

 shot" for tin; 



alkeel along by il 

 , and suddenlv, In 

 .■soul beyond I he "i 

 is fraught with 

 ntinuousiy lueakin 



, , li;f. 

 lei lim 



•ipitated unou the rocks heir 



I body floated away, 

 [saw the last of him 



i" coast the duck is 

 id so h is that in the 

 mt from such. places 



HI and twenty miles 



an . 



ut, fo 



xpedil 



ducks, il i e leeward 



tion. We reached a well-known sea-fowl ha 

 between the dawn and sunrise; but seeing 

 neyed on for two or three miles further. 

 bright and strong, and the trees growing out 

 pices' edge dripped merrily. Worcacl , 

 or slant iiig cliff— distinct from ilssurroundi'u- 

 and gravelly from top to bottom, and formij 

 about forty "degrees with the beach below— f 

 Which we" could see several large beds of 



ns|. thl 



condi 



of ihe-e co/.v htde tilts wrapped warmly 

 omtortabl bunk, lulled to sleep by the 

 ,n the beach and against the irnn-bounrl j 



h e I set out with a parly of three, 1 



yisioued for three weeks, a distance of 



away vigorously. The snow \ 



vas drift e. 



ill a III 1 i .-i • ..,;■• 



about thirty feet out beyond i 



ic brink < 



f the scrape 1...; 



n order to reach the bottom, ii 



wasnecess 



lrvfhat WOsil lUlrj 



go over this artificial and perpt 



i,b -.;!■ , [ 



oul. 



There were live in the part) 





-elf. and these all 



icing as nimble on the oUffs as 





mount ain goats. 



and laughing at all peril, prep: 



ired the d 



•scent, bj 'making 



steps in the snowbank downwa 



rds. But 1 



efore this task was 



lone, we saw an iiistantaueoi 



s moveiue 



if taking place in 



he whole mass, and that we w 



are moving 



with i1 at Ireai, n 



My first recollection was that I was thrown rudely on the 

 beach, bv the very edge of the sea, and a stupefied, pain like 

 feeling I'fell in my head. Mv eves were dizzy, and I reeled 

 around upon the beach stones. Then 1 h-oked about me. 

 and heard the laughter of my companions, and found that I 

 had mv gun tinnlv clutched'in both mv hands. 



It was now all clear. The laugh 1 heard was only moment- 

 ary. It came from three of the party who stood near my 

 self at, the outer edge of the. snow-mass. And then a pierc- 

 ing cry I heard— it Cftme from a brother— "Where is Bill?" 

 And then all asked together, "Where is .lack"?" but the silent 

 hills only returned a sound to the wild beseeching* of the 

 sorrow-stricken pa rly . 



Still we thought that they might be playing us a trick, 

 and looked in every crevice at (lie bottom of" the cliff where 

 it was possible they might, have concealed themselves; but 

 the first, impression was only too correct— they were buried 

 under the huge snow-mass, and while we were speaking, if 

 they were nokkilled otherwise, were smothering to death! 



We knew not, what to do. Sick at the heart with terror 

 and sorrow, and without the appliances to dig in the snow. 

 even were our puny exertions of any value, we stood bewil- 

 dered. All was as still as the very grave. The huge mass 

 rested there, beaten into powder in its fall, yet placid as if 



of the scrape. One had ids gun clenched by both hands, the. 

 other field his lightly in the right hand as if alive. They 

 were without bruise' or scar, but the faces were a purple 

 black. My last act there was to carve out. in letters upon a, 

 cross for each the sirnple legend of the mournful death of 

 one and both. I was. indeed, the only one who could carve 

 such a legend; perhaps in die whole settlement, of sixty 

 souls there were not three who could read or write. And 

 the two crosses stand to this day upon the brink of the ill- 

 fated spot where we descended on that March morning. 



Toronto. Onnoda, J- E. CoLLTJSfS, 



rttysE 



from (I 



RICE LAKE. 



dog days are now ttpOD US, and all v. ho are so fortu- 

 le as to be able to shake the dust of The metropolis 

 ,eir feet, are doing so wilh a warmlh that is only 



days. In fact, from the appearance of outgoing 

 Steamboats, etc., there is a perfect hegira, of sweller- 

 feriug humanity to country and seaside. There are 

 ,dio have done the mountains and seaside to satiety, 

 s or novices with, the rod or gun who are seeking 

 i guide book and excursion tables for new fields lo 

 , where their prowess may be displayed and glory 

 stream or woodland. F ir those f desire, to pose as a 

 t.arian by disclosing a little Utopia for sportsmen, 



man," is banished from 

 known to, and patmni/.i 

 but is a iVrw. incognita* t 



The place 1 refer to 

 'ful sheet of watei 



eould alwav 

 zing tires du 

 used was pi 



gel pie, 



,! I r, 



side. 



neet such mementos of 

 etion of the hardy toil- 



joying the 

 of being t 



os and heard them shout in 



rm. But consciousness, or ra 



recall the. whole incident, 



s fair domain. The ground is well 

 by, our cousins across the border, 



even the vets here. 



- Bice Lake, in Ontario, It is a 



varying from one to four miles in 

 lth. ami is about fourteen miles in length. It is the source 

 of several risers, which arc navigable by canoe for manv 

 miles back inlo what is a vast,, wilderness of forest, where in 

 season large game abound, and which is the resort of many 

 enthusiastic KanuckS, whose sporting proclivities are only 

 limited by the greal chain of lakes in the Xortnwest. Rice 

 Lake owes its name to the extensive beds of wild rice which 

 have existed there, from time immemorial. I believe flics,. 

 rice beds are the largest, and the grain of the best quality, 

 that can be found on this Continent. The lakeand an exten- 

 sive tract of land on its westerly side have been set apart by 

 the Dominion Government, as a reservation for a portion of 

 the Chippewa tribe of Indians, wdio have a very pretty village, 

 which is called "Hiawatha," located on the banks of the 

 lake. It is said that the lands in this reservation arc the best 

 cultivated, and return the largest eropsof any in that section 



Lately the government has been paving great, attention lo 

 th( propagation of Bsh in thislakg. For some years past 



•T ! h:,! ' :'e.";,t a.is 1 , .:; H. I lupaCtc; ;;i Fisheries in 



o. bis ■ i • ' zeal and indefatigable effort* is largely to be 

 attributed the TOCCeSS Of the government in stocking this 



iii, andits Wbutarlesvwitb. its "finny tribe," which 'excel 

 in quantity and quality even the wonders of those, Iradi' on 

 arv Bsh stories •which were inspired on ihc bosom of Pice. 

 Pake in the balycoii days of yore. Mr. Gilchrist, (who, by- 

 the-bye, is one of the' jollies!,, most, genial and hospitable 

 mortal that can be found in main a day's tramp, as all who 

 have come within the beams of his smile can testifv) attri- 

 butes to the wihl rice (he wonderful success in stocking this 

 lake with fish mid redeeming it from depletion, making' il, a 



This riee gi'i.w'- in !',, , .,.,, r>sis feel of water, on a. soft 



muddy bottmiT, from two to six Esel above (he surface; its 



head when ripe is from one ami a half lo two and a half feet 

 in length, and full of grain. It grows ;„ i„,u sa ,)„•,. k ,, 1K | 



strong «s to require great exertion to feci it canoe through 

 it The beds are from two to six miles in I. ngih, and aver- 

 age ib. nu two milesiiiwidt.h. In fish ponds if is of inestim- 

 .,,, c . i" - in the propagation of fish. Its great, root, surface 

 givi it -'eat purifying power. It. affords shelter tol.be 



■' ."■ - being a protection from the larger fish. Its stalks. 



lupport ti great quantity of parasite*/ upon which ihc 



\- -o on as the rfce is n'pe it is gathered by the Indians; 

 the harvesting commences about the last, week of August, 

 f no heavy rains or high winds occur, lasts about iluee. 



An Indian and squaw, or as one reminded me rather im- 

 peratively last summer, an Ingun lady, take a. canoe, she in 

 the slcru'paddling for dear life, and he in the bow. gracefully, 

 but so lazily, wielding a stick in each hand. Strikes the herd 



of the -rain, which falls into Urn canoe, and in this uiaumi' 

 gathers and ihre-h.s at the same time. The rice crop of an 



Indian ie equal to ins efforts, end I cannot Avoid here offer- 

 ing another tribute to woman, by saying if it were not for 

 the Injun lady the Indian's crop of rice would be infinites- 

 Mr. Gilchrist, who, during the entire summer, resides at, 

 the lake, buys from lie Indians almost all the rice tiny' 

 gather, paying the same price they can obtain al. anj of the 



row ns they deal in. and saving then' tin- trouble. of trans 



•eks. 



