Rod and gun . rent sufficiently slackto permit paddling. One day with agood north east gale we relaxed ourefforts and took great joy in beatingthe river at its own game as wehoisted full sail and cruised up streamagainst current and ran before thewind up miles of white water of ra-pids. In this way by poling, pad-dling, tracking and rarely sailing,from morning till night day after daywe fought our way southward pastthe mouth of the muddy Abitibi, pastthe Mattagami, and the in fiow of theOpazatika, past the deserted post atBrunswick until two hundred andfifty miles up stream we came to ourfirst
Rod and gun . rent sufficiently slackto permit paddling. One day with agood north east gale we relaxed ourefforts and took great joy in beatingthe river at its own game as wehoisted full sail and cruised up streamagainst current and ran before thewind up miles of white water of ra-pids. In this way by poling, pad-dling, tracking and rarely sailing,from morning till night day after daywe fought our way southward pastthe mouth of the muddy Abitibi, pastthe Mattagami, and the in fiow of theOpazatika, past the deserted post atBrunswick until two hundred andfifty miles up stream we came to ourfirst portage known as Long Portagewhere are the beautiful ThunderFalls of the Missanabie, eighty feethigh. Resting one day at Long Portagewe renewed our up hill fight. Be-ginning with Mad Rapids, in order tolighten canoes in the shallow whitewater so as to permit the Indians topole up, we took to the water andwalked one and a half miles up therapids floundering in holes and slip-ping on the slimy rocks making slow. Split Rock Falls, Missanabie River
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