128 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



examined in the evening, but to our morti- 

 fication we obtained only four small trout, 

 and were compelled to issue part of our 

 preserved meats for supper. The latitude 

 of the mouth of Dog River was observed 

 59° 52' 16" N. 



The nets were taken up at daylight, but 

 they furnished only a solitary pike. We 

 lost no time in embarking, and crossed the 

 crooked channel of the Dog Rapid, when 

 two of the canoes came in such violent 

 contact with each other, that the sternmost 

 had its bow broken off. We were fortu- 

 nately near the shore, or the disabled canoe 

 would have sunk. The injury being re- 

 paired in two hours, we again embarked, 

 and having descended another rapid, arrived 

 at the Cassette Portage of four hundred and 

 sixty paces, over which the cargoes and 

 canoes were carried in about twenty-six 

 minutes. We next passed through a narrow 

 channel full of rapids, crossed the portage 

 d'Embarras of seventy yards, and the portage 

 of the Little Rock, of three hundred yards, 

 at which another accident happened to one 



