Rod and gun . in their trading with the Indians,which in this part is taking very well andmuch be tt e rthan in somemore distant,or Northe r ndistricts. Theybuy and sellfor cash leavingthe Indian topurchase h i ssupplies for thewinter or sum-mer where hepleases; andwith this sys-tem, they arechanging thecustoms of theHudson BayCompany, whowere in the hab-it of givi n gcredit where itwas wan tedamong the hon-est Indians, andit may be saidthat most ofthem are thatway, exceptingperhaps t hosewho have hadmuch to dowith the white man, which is certainlynot at all creditable to that race, but isneve
Rod and gun . in their trading with the Indians,which in this part is taking very well andmuch be tt e rthan in somemore distant,or Northe r ndistricts. Theybuy and sellfor cash leavingthe Indian topurchase h i ssupplies for thewinter or sum-mer where hepleases; andwith this sys-tem, they arechanging thecustoms of theHudson BayCompany, whowere in the hab-it of givi n gcredit where itwas wan tedamong the hon-est Indians, andit may be saidthat most ofthem are thatway, exceptingperhaps t hosewho have hadmuch to dowith the white man, which is certainlynot at all creditable to that race, but isnevertheless the truth, and has to betold. The above prices of store supplies arethose which prevailed at Temagami, overone hundred miles south some twenty-five years ago, which goes to show howthe trend of civilization is rapidly grow-ing Northwards, in the Province of On-tario as well as the west. Today goodsare sold in the Temagami district, at al-most the same prices as they are sold inlarger cities of THE PROFESSOR ON A MINERAL HUNT. At this point on Long Lake we broughteverything ashore and commenced aquarter of a mile portage to a small lakeat the upper end of which we came acrossanother small lone log cabin, the retreatof Tonena, the chief of the TemagamiTribe of Algonquin. The owner was ab-sent from hoine, probably away on hishunting grounds, as at the time of ourvisit the Indians on the various reserva-tions were making preparations for their winter hunt,and those whowere not en-gaged in guid-ing or otheroccupations todetain them,had already leftfor the woodsto set theirtraps. Carvedover the door-way of one ofthe small out-buildings, werethe le t t e r s,K. K. thatsome of themembers oftheKeewaydin Ka-noe Klub, whoroam theseparts, had beenthere. This point isbeyon d theHeight of Landbetween NorthBay and Hud-son Bay, andon it we dis-covered a spring of clear cold water,the first of its kind we had found on thewhole trip, and the only spring water tobe
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