CHAPTER VL 
THE HOME OF THE REINDEER. 
From Lake Athabasca to the Height of Land our 
course had constantly been up stream, but from this 
point to the sea the way must ever be with the current. 
Having launched our little fleet in the lake on the north 
side of the watershed, the new stage of the journey was 
begun with a strong, fair breeze. 
The lake is a large one, and has been named Daly 
Lake—after the Hon. T. M. Daly, then Minister of the 
Interior for Canada. Towards the centre of it was dis- 
covered a peninsula, which is connected with the west 
shore only by a very narrow neck of land, across which 
a portage was made. Tor a day and a half we were de- 
layed here by a gale, the most severe we had so far 
encountered. So wild was the lake during this storm 
‘that water-spouts were whirled up from its billows and 
carried along in great vertical columns for considerable 
distances. 
Certain remarkable physical features in the shape of 
great sand “ Kames,” or high ridges, were also observed 
at this locality. They were composed of clear sand 
and gravel, were sixty or seventy feet in height, trended 
in a north-easterly and south-westerly direction, were 
quite narrow on top, and so level and uniform that they 
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