Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . Chiikuvan Tkieks .nkar Fori 0\ THE WAY NORTH FROM ChURCHILL. HUDSON BAY TO GREAT SLAVE LAKE ii trusting to our rifles and nets to provide us with a living,and to the good fortune which, up till now, had attendedus. But the journey turned out to be so absurdly easy,that I more than once regretted that I was deprived ofthe pleasure of meeting and surmounting difficulties. Weexplored the main Ark-i-llnik for a distance of 182 miles,a-nd its western branch for 117 miles. We crossed thedivide between the waters of the Hudson Bay and GreatSla
Sport and travel in the northland of Canada . Chiikuvan Tkieks .nkar Fori 0\ THE WAY NORTH FROM ChURCHILL. HUDSON BAY TO GREAT SLAVE LAKE ii trusting to our rifles and nets to provide us with a living,and to the good fortune which, up till now, had attendedus. But the journey turned out to be so absurdly easy,that I more than once regretted that I was deprived ofthe pleasure of meeting and surmounting difficulties. Weexplored the main Ark-i-llnik for a distance of 182 miles,a-nd its western branch for 117 miles. We crossed thedivide between the waters of the Hudson Bay and GreatSlave Lake on the one side, and the Mackenzie River on theother, at an altitude of 1394 feet, a short distance beyondwhich we reached Clinton-Colden Lake, and our journeyof exploration was safely accomplished. The Ark-i-llnik is a fine large river about 300 yardswide, having an even, steady current of from four to fivemiles an hour. Por the entire distance over which wefollowed the main river, there is not a sign of any roughwater which could possibly be called a rapid, and thestream
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