. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 294 AMERICAN FORESTRY. A RANGER'S TENT IN WINTER—WITHOUT ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME canoe and two men to help us over the "Long Portage," seven miles. The weather was perfect and as we made the two short portages and crossed the two long narrow lakes to the beginning of our real day's work, it seemed good to be alive and the loads we carried only lent a zest and helped to keep us down to earth. Leaving one canoe at the beginning of the "Long Portage" for the packers to return in, we started out, stopping for lunch after a mile or so.
. American forestry. Forests and forestry. 294 AMERICAN FORESTRY. A RANGER'S TENT IN WINTER—WITHOUT ALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME canoe and two men to help us over the "Long Portage," seven miles. The weather was perfect and as we made the two short portages and crossed the two long narrow lakes to the beginning of our real day's work, it seemed good to be alive and the loads we carried only lent a zest and helped to keep us down to earth. Leaving one canoe at the beginning of the "Long Portage" for the packers to return in, we started out, stopping for lunch after a mile or so. We shot two or three grouse with our pistols, keeping them for our break- fast. About half past five we reached the other end and pitched our small Laker tent, spreading it to give some shelter to all four of us and after a hearty supper, were soon asleep. In the morning we said good-bye to our packers and launching our canoe on the River Mattawin, a beautiful stream about seventy-five miles long and with many pictures(|uc rapids, we started upstream. We had three port- ages and had to "double" them as our load was too heavv to be taken over in one trip. Just before noon we reached the mouth of the Chienne River, a smaller stream emptying into the Mat- tawin, up which our route lay. Here we had lunch and after passing through two small lakes, where the river wid- ened out, we found the water quite low and had to track our canoe through sev- eral swift waters. About four o'clock we made a short portage into Lac Brochet and to our great surprise found it frozen. This was something of a dilemma as we did not relish the thought of having to pack all our bag- gage around it and if it had frozen so early, many of the other lakes above would probably be frozen too. Trying the ice with our axes, and finding it fairly safe, I crossed by lying flat on my stomach so as to cover as much ice as possible and by tying four tump lines together we dragged the duftle across the narr
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