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placed her so as to command the mouth of the stream. A gen¬ 
tle morning breeze had sprung up, displacing the curtain of 
thick mist which overhung the lake, and forming that beautiful 
curl on the water so essential to fly fishing. At the first cast, 
three Trout rose at my three flies, and with the assistance of 
Adella, I landed two fine fish. Sft lively did the fish rise, that 
after a few casts I was compelled to abandon two flies; and 
when the sun poured forth his bright rays, and put an end to 
my sport, I had thirty fine trout lying in the bottom of the 
canoe. 
“ After a hearty breakfast we again embarked, and darted 
down the rapid. Howard and Adella were in advance, and I 
enjoyed the novelty of the scene of poling a canoe down a rapid. 
Indeed it was a thrilling sight to behold the tall and graceful 
figure of the young Indian, stripped to the waist, his glossy skin 
shining in the morning sun, standing erect and firm in the stern 
of the canoe—in his hand he grasped a stout pole, some twelve 
feet long, and with quick eye and ready hand guided his frail 
bark from the dangerous rocks upon which she each moment 
appeared about to be dashed to pieces. The thoroughfare was 
near three miles long. We now entered a lake very similar to 
that we had left. Wild-fowl were plenty; but Sabatisie re¬ 
commended abstaining from shooting, as we expected to find 
Moose either browsing on the margin, or wallowing in the 
stream. The Indians having resumed their paddles in the deep 
water, we glided quietly on, passing three lakes and as many 
connecting streams. About mid-day the sun became so over- 
poweringly hot, that we resolved to take shelter on the first 
grassy bank we came to. The canoes were hauled up, and we 
cast ourselves under the shade of a hospitable cedar. I had 
smoked myself drowsy, and was composing my limbs for a 
doze, when Adella making a sign to us to be quiet, cast himself 
flat on the earth and wormed his body to the water’s edge. In a 
short time he returned to us with the joyful news that two Moose 
had entered the stream a short distance below. How he had 
guessed such was the case, before he obtained ocular demon- 
