THE AUTHORESS IN CAMP 



ing ground for- the Indians who come 

 from the North to trade. 



Down the Montreal River are found 

 numbers of Indian cabins and wig- 

 wams, the occupants being most 

 friendly. The Indians in this part of 

 the country are mostly Roman Catho- 

 lics, having been Christianized by the 

 Jesuits who came up from Quebec for 

 that purpose. They are, however, a 

 strange mixture of Christianity and 

 heathenism so far as their religious 

 belief is concerned. ~ 



Old Hudson Bay traders tell the 

 story of Cannibalism among the Indi- 

 ans north of this place in 1849 when 

 game was not to be found and the peo- 

 ple were starving. 



From Bay Lake to Lake Anima Nip- 

 issing we found the long portage. 



It was two miles long and boggy 

 from recent rain, but we found it easier 

 than we thought. 



At Lake Anima Nipissing John and 

 the Chaperon went moose hunting with 

 a camera at break of day. 



Over a beaver dam and through 

 thick underbrush they found a little 

 lake hidden away among high hills and 

 dense forest. Down by the water's 

 edge they found numerous tracks of 

 various sizes and dimensions which 

 John said were those of bear, wolf, 

 deer and moose. A big bear had been 

 caught in a trap and left there after the 

 skin had been taken. 



John pulled four of its teeth for us 

 to take away as charms. W*e keep them 

 among our special treasures. Though 

 there were many fresh moose tracks to 

 be seen, the Chaperon was disap- 

 pointed in her special errand, but was 

 somlewhat mollified when a fourteen- 

 pound pike was caught on the way 

 back to camp. 



The fishing in all the lakes was excel- 



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