below and disappeared. The Indian 
dropped his pack and clambered down 
into the gorge and hunted and called, 
but could find no trace of his squaw. 
Finally, as it was getting dark, he 
built a fire and sat down before it, all 
huddled up, bemoaning his loss. After 
a time he heard a faint cry which he 
took to be her spirit calling him, so he 
hugged the fire and drew his coat more 
closely about him. 
Again he heard the cry, and it began 
to dawn upon him that the sound came 
from the gorge below. He answered the 
call and clambered down once more into 
the creek bottom, and there hidden in 
some rushes, he found his squaw, with 
both legs broken. She had apparently 
landed on her back, and the papoose 
was instantly killed. He carried her 
up to his fire, dried out her clothing as 
well as he could, and packed her on his 
back thirty miles into Gowganda, where 
they got a team and sleigh, and drove 
to the hospital at Ville Marie. She re- 
covered and was quite well by Septem- 
ber. The perseverance and hardihood 
of the Indians is a never ending source 
of wonder to those who come in contact 
with them. 
The flies are at their worst. We had 
two cold days with a north wind, and 
the flies disappeared almost entirely, 
but they are making up for lost time 
now. Every time the tent curtain is 
lifted a cloud of mosquitoes rushes in, 
- and there is a massacre before one can 
sleep. In the early morning there are 
thousands of them demanding admis- 
sion in no uncertain terms. The mos- 
quitoes stay on the job until ten or 
eleven o’clock at night, and the next 
shift comes on about four in the morn- 
ing—their worst time, and woe betide 
anyone trying to sleep in anything but 
a fly-proof tent, or outside a mosquito 
curtain if in a camp. The black flies 
do not put in an appearance until about 
seven o’clock, and remain on the job 
until sundown, when the mosquitoes 
come to relieve them. 
On Monday evening I heard some- 
thing moving under my bed, and upon 
investigation found it to be a big garter 
snake—the largest one I ever saw, but 
although marked like a garter snake, 
it was brown instead of green in color. 
We pulled it out and found it was a 
good four feet long. It had a large 
lump about six inches down its neck, 
and upon putting one foot on its body 
and running a stick along towards its 
head, the lump moved up, and out went 
a big toad, quite dead, but recently 
swallowed. The Indians were much 
amused to see it disgorge. As a rule 
they do not like snakes, and will not 
handle them. 
This is a great country for butter- 
flies. The yellow swallowtail are very 
plentiful, and after a cold rain, which 
came down very heavily, we saw hun- 
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dreds of them all dead under some logs 
at one of the portages. They were 
three deep in places and were appar- 
ently washed down from some place 
where they went for shelter. 
The Indians have their own means of 
communication, and generally know 
where to find one another. As an in- 
stance: We see a family passing, and 
my guides talk to them and find out 
that they are going to camp at a cer- 
tain spot on the Montreal River, where 
they will meet another party of In- 
dians, who will have someone of their 
party going to another camp, where an 
Indian will be leaving there for Elk 
Lake for some purpose. I give my let- 
ters which I wish posted, carefully 
wrapped up in a newspaper, and a quar- 
ter or fifty cents to buy stamps and tell 
them to get some tobacco with the 
change, and the letters invariably 
reach their destination. 
The Indians take everything very 
seriously, and are nearly all slow- 
spoken. They think before speaking, 
and do not care to speak English un- 
less they have to. This applies especi- 
ally to the older ones, and you meet 
many between seventy and eighty-five 
years of age, all still actively engaged 
in hunting and trapping in the winter 
and fishing in the summer. 
Many of the young Indians were 
killed in the war, as they enlisted in 
great numbers from Temagami, Elk 
Lake, and Matachewan, and put to 
shame many white men in northern 
Ontario, who “beat it into the bush,” 
and remained hidden during the war. 
Joe, one of my guides, enlisted and saw 
service in France. 
Indians are quiet and less talkative, 
even among themselves than white men. 
If you come across two white men in 
a canoe, you can hear them talking be- 
fore you see them, but Indians are per- 
fectly silent. There is no stream of 
conversation which you so often hear 
as you run into white people. Once in 
a while you may hear one Indian ask 
the other a question, which is usually 
answered by a grunt. 
At present we are camped on Gow- 
ganda Lake, opposite the town, on a 
very pretty point almost at lake level, 
as they have raised the water by put- 
ting in the dam at the north end of the 
lake. There is also a dam at the south 
end, and a power plant built to de- 
velop 1,000 horse-power, one unit of 
500 horse-power being already in place. 
The power plant at the north end sup- 
plies the power to the O’Brien mine and 
is owned and operated by that com- 
pany. 
I tried an experiment to-day, while 
the guides were taking the second load 
over the portage, to watch the effect of 
the fly-oil we have. I rolled my sleeves 
up and smeared oil on my hands and 
arms, also on my neck, ears and face. 
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