Rod and gun . all lake, taking dinner to the men out 300 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. on the line, as heparty. This was was cookee of theabout a year before,and his mates buried him here wrappedin the birch bark of which the canoe wasmade ; a fitting coffin for a CanadianVoyageur. From this we worked west, day afterday and week after week, in rain andshine ; through heat and flies and frostand snow, and other drawbacks such aswasps, which were very numerous and at-tentive. What these insects live on it ishard to say, for there are no flowers norfruits and not enough human beings tom
Rod and gun . all lake, taking dinner to the men out 300 ROD AND GUN AND MOTOR SPORTS IN CANADA. on the line, as heparty. This was was cookee of theabout a year before,and his mates buried him here wrappedin the birch bark of which the canoe wasmade ; a fitting coffin for a CanadianVoyageur. From this we worked west, day afterday and week after week, in rain andshine ; through heat and flies and frostand snow, and other drawbacks such aswasps, which were very numerous and at-tentive. What these insects live on it ishard to say, for there are no flowers norfruits and not enough human beings tomake it worth while for them to waithere for thepleasure ofstinging thosewho do ventureto visit those re-gions. As we workedeach daytheaxe-men went aheadand cut downtrees on came thetransit, level andchain, with themen in chargeof them. Tomand I chainedand we had togo straight a-head througheverything andover everything,no matter whatwas in the i twas moss, deepand soaking wetto knees or. in which we would sinkwaist : sometimes cedar-swamp, so thick we couldnt see threefeet ahead ; or again, we would have tocross a little river with perpendicularrocky banks, and down one side, one ofus would go and drag the chain throughthree feet of water, and up the otherside, hanging on by toes and fingers thebest way he could, the other followingwhen the distance was marked. One day there was quite an excitement;for an axeman, who was cutting abench-mark, got his foot badly cut bythe axe glancing off the tree. A tour- niquet was quickly made to stop thebleeding and then we took turns carryinghim about three miles to camp on ourbacks with a tump line, like a bag offlour, a pretty heavy load, but not half asbad as carrying a canoe. If it were not for accidents that hap-pen, there would be hardly any need otthe medicine chest, which is always afeature of the partys outfit, for nobodyis ever ill, in spite of the exposure, wetfeet and bad water. One day we moved camp three
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