. Rod and gun . houses bears the modest name ofRidout; as a special confidence I men-tion this name as it is a good one totreasure if you want moose and caribou,for the Ridout River leads to one of theverv best moose grounds on the contin- Thaiik God! it will always be wilderness,as mountains of rock rise tier upon tiercovered with virgin balsam, spruce andcedar; nature has made it a wildernessthat cannot be converted into farms un-til the rocks are pulverized. One mar-vels at the energy and money spent incutting through masses of mountain, andwinding up sides of rock too great to becut; it is
. Rod and gun . houses bears the modest name ofRidout; as a special confidence I men-tion this name as it is a good one totreasure if you want moose and caribou,for the Ridout River leads to one of theverv best moose grounds on the contin- Thaiik God! it will always be wilderness,as mountains of rock rise tier upon tiercovered with virgin balsam, spruce andcedar; nature has made it a wildernessthat cannot be converted into farms un-til the rocks are pulverized. One mar-vels at the energy and money spent incutting through masses of mountain, andwinding up sides of rock too great to becut; it is a scene of utter desolation andgrandeur, with miles of mountain lakesand traversed by rapid, trout waters, allstilled and softened by a thick blanketof snow covering the ground and cling-ing to the trees in heavy masses. At two in the afternoon the train cameto a stop at the little settlement at Mis-sanabie, which was to be my startingpoint, the stepping off place, for theplunge into the wilderness. This place. ent; it is practically virgin moose coun-try, has been hunted by very few andmoose are thick. At Chapleau the en-gines were changed and without over-coat I took a stroll along the platform;on casually inquiring the temperature ofthe telegraph operator, he laconicallyannounced 20 below, which so taxedmy credulity that I visited the thermo-meter in person and verified his state-ment ; it was hard to believe as at Buf-falo the previous evening it had been20 above, yet had seemed much colderthan the Chapleau 20 below. From Chapleau to White River is oneof the most desolate and beautiful pan-oramas of wilderness on the continent. is well to bear in mind if one plans awilderness journey, for it is the home ofthe best guides in the country; here livesmy old guide Antoine Soulier, a half-breed Ojibway; George Elson and JoeIserhof, half breed Crees, and a numberof other good guides not so well knownas these I have mentioned; here also isa well equipped post of the Hudson BayComp
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