236 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



breed hunter was therefore sent after them. 

 He succeeded in wounding one, but not so 

 as to prevent its running off with the herd 

 in a direction wide of our course. A couple 

 of rabbits, and a brace of wood partridges, 

 were shot in the afternoon. There was an 

 agreeable variety of hill and dale in the 

 scenery we passed through to-day ; and suf- 

 ficient wood for ornament, but not enough to 

 crowd the picture. The valleys were in- 

 tersected by several small lakes and pools, 

 whose snowy covering was happily con- 

 trasted with the dark green of the pine- 

 trees which surrounded them. After as- 

 cending a moderately high hill by a winding 

 path through a close wood, we opened sud- 

 denly upon Lake Iroquois, and had a full 

 view of its picturesque shores. We crossed 

 it and encamped. 



Though the sky was cloudless, yet the 

 weather was warm. We had the gratifica- 

 tion of finding a beaten track soon after we 

 started on the morning of the 12th, and 

 were thus enabled to walk briskly. We 

 crossed at least twenty hills, and found a 



