Another joined our party at Tema- 
gami, and we started off on our trip 
through Northern Quebec. Left Tema- 
gami at 10.30, checking our canoes and 
supplies to Cochrane, from there to La- 
Sarre, 80 miles east of Cochrane on 
the Transcontinental, and arrived at 
Cochrane at 6.30. 
COCHRANE is a bright little town, 
which has twice been wiped out by 
fire, but has many substantial build- 
ings, and a fine club, and good stores. 
They also have two moving picture 
theaters, several churches and fine 
school buildings, and should be one of 
the most important of the Northern 
Ontario towns in a very few years’ 
time, situated as it is at the junc- 
tion of two great railway lines. 
We left Cochrane on the accom- 
modation train, (which, by the 
way has no accommodations). The 
coach seats were most of them 
broken, or had broken backs, and 
the steps had been knocked askew 
in some accident, and has been 
left that way, probably for fear 
that they might get knocked that 
way again some day, if flxed. The 
train crew was the only accommo- 
dating thing about the outfit. They 
allow smoking anywhere, and so 
long as the four ladies who were 
on the train did not mind, we were 
quite pleased. One severe lurch 
sent the back out of the seat, in 
which a lady was sitting, and the 
promptness of a gentleman behind 
her alone saved her from a back 
somersault. After a trip of nine 
hours’ duration we reached La- 
Sarre, a distance of 80 miles, that 
is, at the rate of nine miles an 
hour. 
The country along the line from 
Cochrane to LaSarre is level, cov- 
ered with small timber, and many 
farms, as the soil is rich and well 
adapted to farming, and there are 
sawmills everywhere. At each little 
town there are piles of pulpwood along 
the railway line, and at some points 
four or five sawmills. Goodwin wags 
the last Ontario town we passed, and 
French is spoken everywhere. We had 
hard work getting the storekeepers to 
understand what we wanted in the way 
of supplies, but the few French words 
I knew helped a little. 
E were off by eight o’clock on the 
following morning, paddling up 
White Fish River, a sluggish, muddy 
stream, through clay land, with saw- 
mills in many places along the banks. 
We reached Lake Abitibi by eleven 
o’clock—a most disappointing lake with 
water so muddy that it would be almost 
impossible for fish to see bait unless 

within a few feet of it. The shores are 
low and the timber all small, and dead 
all along the shore from damming up 
the water—a great contrast to the coun- 
try we had just left. We reached the 
Hudson Bay Post and got some flour, 
which we could not get at LaSarre, and 
met the old Hudson Bay Factor, a fine 
type of the old Scotch early pioneer, 
who has been there for forty-five years. 
We got a lift in a launch as far as the 
portage up the Abitibi River. The river 
is more picturesque than the lake, and 
the timber larger, and the land is 
higher and rocky. ; 
We arrived at the lovely Duparquet 
Lake by 6.30. The shores are well 
wooded, high in many places, with tier 

A bit of easy going 
upon tier of fine birch and poplar mixed 
with evergreen. The lake is full of 
pretty little islands, all green and well 
wooded, but the water is dark colored 
and muddy like Lake Abitibi. I miss 
the fishing as we were always able to 
get all we wanted for our meals in 
Ontario. 
There are plenty of partridges here, 
and we saw about thirty, very tame, 
this morning while tramping through 
the bush. We camped on an island in 
Duparquet Lake, and there is a mining 
claim on an adjoining sland with a 
good showing of quartz veins, well 
mineralized. Paddled up Hebecourt 
Creek to Hebecourt Lake to-day, and 
are now camped on an island in this 
body of water. This is also a beautiful 
lake with clear water and rocky shores, 
and any number of islands well wooded. 
Everything is green, as no fire has vis- 
ited this country for a great many 
years. 
CAUGHT an eleven-pound pike and 
three smaller ones between five and 
six o’clock and had the big one boiled 
for supper and we ate nearly all of it. 
I never saw such appetites as these 
guides have. I can do my share as a 
rule, but have to take my hat off to 
them, when it comes to meal times. We 
can get all the pike we want here, 
simply by casting from the shore. The 
lake is full of them. There are also 
a great many ducks and it is noticeable 
that the broods are very small. One 
sees an old duck paddling round 
with two ducklings, and some with 
only one. The big pike are respon- 
sible for this, as they are fond of 
ducklings when they are small. 
Had a long tramp over some very 
promising country to-day—vwell 
mineralized keewatin schists and 
voleanic rocks and conglomerate 
contact. There will be many gold 
mines throughout this country in 
the future, as there is a very large 
area of similar foundation to that 
in the Kirkland Lake area, here in 
Quebec as large, if not larger, than 
in Ontario. For the past two days 
we have explored the country round 
here, and will be leaving for a trip 
up the Magnus River to-morrow, 
H—, the boy who joined our party 
at Temagami, caught an eleven 
and a half pound pike, casting from 
the shore at noon, and I took a snap 
of him and the fish. 
There were twenty black ducks 
just in front of our camp this 
morning when we got up, and we 
saw over a hundred last night, 
while everywhere we go we see 
moose tracks, and have seen three 
moose so far in the distance. The 
woods are full of partridge. This 
country beats Northern Ontario for 
game. 
The weather has turned very warm 
again—quite a change from last week, 
when we were glad to sit around a big 
camp fire in the evenings. 
H ERE we are back at Duparquet 
Lake at our old camping ground, 
and we just arrived here and got the 
tent up when a terrific storm broke. 
The wind blew about sixty miles an 
hour, then rain and hail. If the tents 
had not been somewhat sheltered they 
would have been blown away, as it was 
a real squall, almost a tornado. Many 
trees were torn up by the roots, and 
some broken off short some distance up 
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