Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1911. 
VOL. LXXVII.—No. 12. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
ON THE ECHIMAMISH RIVER. 
Travel by Northland Skiff 
T HERE are three methods of reaching Nor¬ 
way House from the inland posts of the 
North during the summer. The usual one 
is by aid of the York boats of the Hudson Bay 
Company that make one or more trips each 
season. To one traveling independently the 
canoe is by far the best, as it. is more comfort¬ 
able, as well as more convenient, and is much 
speedier. If neither the York boat nor the 
canoe is available there still remains the heavy 
skiff or rowboat of the North, the most cum¬ 
bersome of its kind I have ever seen on any 
water. It weighs from three hundred to eight 
By the REV. ARTHUR SANTMIER 
hundred pounds and is neither seaworthy nor 
speedy. 
As the York boats of the “Great Company” 
were already off for Norway House and no 
canoe of the proper size could be obtained, I 
engaged an old Indian by the name of Abraham, 
and his consumptive son Lazarus, to take my 
goods and person to Norway House in his skiff. 
As this was a distance of but one hundred and 
fifty miles, or thereabouts, I fully expected to 
arrive at my destination within the space of 
seven or eight days, at the outside. 
“There is many a slip ’twixt the cup and lip,” 
however. On the day I was to start, after hav¬ 
ing paid Abraham a portion of his wages, I was 
coolly informed that he had sold his skiff and 
had decided to go to Norway House by birch 
canoe to visit his relatives. As the York boats 
were now well on their way and with them were 
all the available men of the post, I saw that the 
old man had me at a great disadvantage. By 
missing this opportunity I would likely be 
stranded for the summer. 
So I determined to compel the old fellow to 
keep his contract. Summoning him to an inter¬ 
view, I informed him through his son, who 
