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heroic game fish, tarpon, jewfish, jack- 
fish, sharks, devil-fish, sea-trout, mack¬ 
erel, mango snappers, channel bass and 
a great host of other varieties. The 
fresh waters are teeming with large- 
mouth bass, and it 'is possible for an 
adventurous angler to reach virgin lakes 
where few or none have ever cast a 
lure. 
The hunter who visits Lee County may 
make headquarters in the thriving and 
beautiful city of Fort Myers; can leave 
hotel or boarding house there at day¬ 
break in an automobile, select a camp¬ 
ing site, set up camp and shoot wild 
turkeys before dark. There are other 
varieties of game in plenty, for quail, 
deer, wild cat, even bears and alligators, 
are quite numerous. Over 500 square 
miles of land and swamp territory with¬ 
in the boundaries of Lee County have 
not been surveyed even, and form a 
marvelous playground for the nerve- 
jaded lovers of outdoor life. 
South of Lee County lies the county 
of Monroe, another vast winter play¬ 
ground for those red-blooded folks who 
seek diversion or recreation in combi¬ 
nation with rod and gun. Monroe em¬ 
braces much unsurveyed territory with¬ 
in its borders and contains those gems 
of scenic beauty, “The Ten Thousand 
Islands’’ and a natural fish and game 
refuge, a regular sporting Paradise, in 
the White Water Bay region and in the 
Shark River country. 
At this season of the year all roads 
in the United States bear tourists 
headed towards Florida. Some for a 
stay of a few days; others for a much 
longer time, perhaps even until next 
June. The air is so soft and balmy, 
the sun so pleasantly warm, the stars 
so many, so bright and so near, the 
nights so quiet and so very restful that 
a first trip to Florida during the winter 
is but preparatory training for the trips 
that will surely follow annually. That 
goes double should the tourist be angler 
or hunter. 
Joseph W. Stray, New York. 
TRAPPING THE THREE 
RIVER ZONE 
(Continued from page 111) 
got to the Athabasca. It was 2 A. M. 
and we had traveled nearly all night in 
order to reach there in time. Mrs. 
Murphy and her two boys were weak 
from hunger, but in a few days were as 
well as ever. Rapeljes had been out of 
flour two days when we got there, and, 
although I never mentioned it to them, 
I noticed where some steaks had been 
sliced from the “ham’" of a horse that 
hung in a shed! But, all’s well that 
ends well! 
Knowles had had about all he wanted 
of the Athabasca for a while, so I 
trapped alone over at the Baptiste; my 
principal catch being bears, three of 
which were grizzlies. I had extra good 
luck around the carcasses of Mr. 
Rapelje’s horses. Thus ended the hard¬ 
est season I had ever experienced! 
(To be continued ) 
Forest and Stream 
OF THE OLD NORTHWEST 
JV/IATTERS move so fast in North 
America, the country is so wide 
and the people so many, that many in¬ 
teresting matters entirely worthy of rec¬ 
ord are neglected, passed over and for¬ 
gotten. 
We may congratulate ourselves, there¬ 
fore, that a story of travel and explora¬ 
tion in the Canadian northwest, fifty 
years ago, has recently made its appear¬ 
ance in The Life of John Macoun, 
brought out by the Ottawa Field Natur¬ 
alists’ Club. 
Professor Macoun was a Canadian 
explorer and naturalist whose life cov¬ 
ered nearly 90 years—from 1831 to 1920. 
His travels and explorations in the 
northwest began in 1872, and he covered, 
besides the northwest, a great deal of 
eastern Canada. In his western journey- 
ings he was familiar with such forgotten 
animals as the buffalo and the wild 
pigeon, and, of course, he saw some¬ 
thing of the Indians of the western 
plains and the mountains—then not so 
greatly changed in their ways of life 
from earlier days. 
Professor Macoun tells his story in 
simple and direct fashion, and we learn 
much from him not only about the diffi¬ 
culties of travels and the animals and 
plants of that great country, but much 
also about the daily experiences of one 
who travelled through it. He discov¬ 
ered early that warmth could be had and 
food cooked over buffalo chips, and he 
was obliged to eat pemmican until it 
palled on him and he felt that he would 
rather starve than eat more of it. In¬ 
cidentally he paints a picture of his sup¬ 
per one night in which he says: “I sat 
at the table and ate fish and potatoes 
with a knife and fork. The men sat on 
the floor and ate them with their fingers. 
Old Edward Big Belly with his wife 
sat in a corner eating pemmican, while 
all around on the floor were Indians 
smoking and staring at the eaters.” 
The narrative is largely of travel and 
adventure in the wilds, and the story one 
which should appeal with force to men 
devoted to the out-of-doors. Now and 
then in looking through this book we 
come on names familiar to old readers 
of Forest and Stream, and one of these 
is Mr. Moberly, an old-time Hudson Bay 
factor, who many years ago was a con¬ 
tributor to these columns. 
Professor Macoun was fundamentally 
a botanist, but he was greatly interested 
in other branches of natural history, 
made an important list of the birds of 
Canada, and wrote many books. Aside 
from his work in the field and the books 
he produced he was, of course, familiar 
with museum work, and was deeply in¬ 
terested in the museum collections. He 
was for many years Assistant Director 
and Naturalist of the Geological Survey 
of Canada, for which he performed most 
useful services. 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. It will identify you. 
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