110 ACROSS THE SUB-ARCTICS OF CAN4@e 
found; and for a peace-offering a plug of tobacco was 
left upon it.* 
From our camp at White Mountain, on the morning of 
the 23rd, we again entered the river, which for ten or 
twelve miles carried us off to the eastward ; then turn- 
ing sharply to the northward and flowing swiftly be- 
tween high, steep banks of sand, it widened out into 
what has been named Lady Marjorine Lake, a body of 
water about ten miles long by three or four wide. 
Through this we passed and at its north-western ex- 
tremity regained the river. 
It began with a rough, rocky rapid, in running which 
my canoe struck a smooth rock, was smashed in the 
bottom, and nearly filled with water; but though in a 
sinking condition we managed to get itashore. Though 
the contents were soaked, everything was landed with- 
out serious damage. After a delay of two hours we 
were again in the stream, and being borne away to the 
westward—the direction Oe to that we were now 
anxious to follow. 
The river was here a noble stream, deep and swift, 
with a well-defined channel and high banks of rock or 
sand. Near the north bank there extended for some 
miles a high range of dark but snow-capped trappean 
hills, of ayaa five hundred feet in height. 
On the night of the 24th we camped at the base of 
two conspicuous conical peaks of trap, named by us the 
Twin Mountains. 
* My brother in revisiting the Barren Lands during the summer of 
1894 was hailed by the natives many miles south of the scene of this 
incident as the ‘‘ Kudloonah Peayouk ” (good white man) who had 
regard for the goods of an Eskimo, and left on his ““ kometic” a 
piece of tobacco. 
