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Photograph by George Shiras, 3d 

 A PIG-LIKE ALBINO BUCK AND TWO WHITE FAWNS: GRAND ISLAND (SEE PAGE 182) 



cooking outfit had been left behind. Nat- 

 urally, I suggested returning for it; but 

 Jack promptly said it would bring bad 

 luck to do this after once having made 

 the start, and, besides, with our pocket- 

 knives it was easy to make what was 

 needed. 



In about three hours Shot Point was 

 reached, the first rocks to the east, where 

 I began fishing, leaving Jack to put up 

 the tent and start the fire. 



MAKING A PRYING PAN PROM A CAN 



On returning with a creel of trout, I 

 found Jack had already replaced the 

 missing outfit. From large sheets of 

 birch bark he had fashioned plates, while 

 cups and other containers were made of 

 the same material, with knives from hard- 

 wood and forks of double- jointed twigs. 

 In the fire was a can of tomatoes per- 

 forated in the top to let out the steam, 

 while well beneath the glowing coals half 

 a dozen potatoes were baking. Alongside 

 he placed the dressed trout, wrapped in 

 wet, brown paper. Then the tomato can 

 was emptied into a birch-bark dish before 

 the fire, and with a piece of wire a bail 



was made for it, and soon the tea was 

 boiling. 



At the next meal, after heating a can 

 of beans and removing the contents, it 

 was cut and flattened into a frying-pan, 

 with a handle made of a split stick, serv- 

 ing thereafter for frying trout or bacon 

 and the all-important flapjacks. 



On suggesting to Jack that several of 

 these fireside conveniences depended upon 

 having canned goods, he thereupon picked 

 up a small boulder and explained that, 

 after heating several of these in the coals, 

 by putting them into the birch-bark bowl 

 one could brew tea, make soup, boil fish, 

 or have a stew. 



This was my first lesson in the ease 

 with which supposed essentials might be 

 left behind, proving a useful experience 

 when forced to travel light, or a capsize 

 of the canoe sent the outfit to the bottom. 



THE SPECKLED TROUT OP LAKE SUPERIOR 



Prior to 1890 the range of the speckled 

 trout included all of the shore waters for 

 more than a thousand miles, except in 

 places where sand beaches lacked coarse 

 gravel or boulders, or continuous cliffs 



