4 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICGS OF CANADA: 
I took charge of our own supplies, and checked each 
piece as it was brought ashore. Our chest of tea was 
the only article that had suffered from the effects of fre- 
quent transhipment. It had been broken open and a 
few pounds lost, but the balance—about sixty pounds— 
had been gathered up and put in a flour bag. Before 
noon everything was safely landed on the shore, and it 
formed a miscellaneous pile of no small extent. Fol- 
lowing is a list of the articles: ‘Bacon, axes, flour, 
matches, oatmeal, alcohol, tin kettles, evaporated apples, 
apricots, salt, sugar, frying-pans, dutch oven, rice, pep- 
per, mustard, files, jam, tobacco, hard tack, candles, 
geological hammers, baking powder, pain killer, knives, 
forks, canned beef—fresh and corned—tin dishes, tar- 
paulins and waterproof sacks. Besides the above, there 
were our tents, bags of dunnage, mathematical instru- 
ments, rifles and a box of ammunition. The total 
weight of all this outfit amounted at the time to about 
four thousand pounds. 
A sail-boat which my brother had used in 1892, and 
which was in good condition, rode at anchor before the 
Fort, and for a time it was thought we would have to 
make use of this as faras the east end of the lake to 
carry all our stuff: Moberly, the guide, particularly 
urged the necessity of taking the big boat, for his home 
was at the east end of the lake, and he had a lot of 
stuff for which he wished to arrange a transport, but 
as we were not on a freighting tour for Moberly, and 
as we found by trial that everything could be carried 
nicely in the canoes, we decided to take them only. At 
this the guide became sulky, and thought he would not 
go. His wife and two daughters, who were to accom- 
