January, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
35 
O LD Albert drew a pile of brush to 
the fire and leaning against it, 
filled his pipe, looked into the flame 
ior some minutes and then said: “You 
have asked of the belief of our old 
people; this I can say: In the old time, 
as now, we always believed in the Gitchi 
Manito, the Master of Life and Chibia- 
’bos, his prophet. This is so today even 
as we have embraced the Christian faith. 
The difference is little. Our people al- 
ways believed in the spirit living in a 
future state. It was told to us by our 
Men of Mystery of olden times, that the 
spirit must go a great distance in the 
West, beyond the home of Mudjekee’wis 
(the West wind) to a dreadful, deep and 
rapid river which is hemmed in by high 
and rugged hills. Over this stream, from 
hill to hill, there lies a long and slippery 
log of pine with the bark peeled, beyond 
which the spirit must pass to the Happy 
Hunting Ground. On the other side of 
the stream there are six beings with 
rocks in their hands, which they throw 
at all who pass across. The good walk 
safely to the place of continual day — 
where the trees are always green, where 
the sky is always blue, where there is 
constant feasting, dancing and rejoicing, 
where there is no pain or trouble and 
where people never grow old but ever 
live young and enjoy youthful pleasures. 
The wicked, in crossing, see the stones 
coming and fall from the log down thou- 
sands of feet to where the dark waters, 
dashing over the rocks, carry them 
around and around ever to the same 
place in the whirling waters, where the 
trees are all dead and the waters are 
full of toads, lizards and snakes — where 
they are always hungry and where the 
sun never shinps. The wicked are con- 
tinually climbing up the sides of the 
high rock to look at the beautiful country 
of the good, the place of the happy which 
they can never reach. This has always 
been our belief. You see it is little dif- 
ferent.” 
T HE dawn was just silvering the 
edge of the hills as we had break- 
fast and as the sun came up over 
the top of the pines, we struck camp. 
The carry up the face of that quarter 
mile hill looked pretty tough. Old Albert 
had been over the portage the day be- 
fore and made the trail, chopping out 
the underbrush, which made it appear 
easier. Leaving the canoe and each tak- 
ing half the duffle, we started. Have 
you ever tried toting one hundred pounds 
up a thirty degree rough rock portage? 
Try it sometime. The face of that rock 
was as smooth as a well polished mirror. 
Old Albert seemed to get along alright, 
but I had to literally hang on by my toes 
— one misstep meant a perfect slide into 
the stream below. With the canoe it was 
easier; I took the stern and could see 
Old Albert’s feet ahead so I just planted 
mine where his had been. 
The entrance to Compass Lake is quite 
remarkable. The upper chain of lakes 
is fully two hundred feet above Stop Log 
and the other lower lakes. It is the huge 
granite walls which make this great dif- 
ference in the levels. Here at the en- 
trance of Compass Lake the walls nar- 
row till there are not more than a dozen 
feet dividing them. Where the water en- 
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