Rod and gun . Moose Factory Showing Factors House, Trading House and Accountants House turning to the railroad and our downstream course was at once out ofquestion as too much time would beconsumed in slow poling, trackingand paddling against the heavy cur-rent and rapids on the rivers we hadtraversed. Some idea of the laborand tediousness of such travel may bederived from a statement made thewriter by Mr. Iserhoff, tlie factor fromMartins Falls, who told us that ittook him only five days with histwelve Indians to down the fourlumdred mile stretch of the AlbanyRiver from Martins Falls to
Rod and gun . Moose Factory Showing Factors House, Trading House and Accountants House turning to the railroad and our downstream course was at once out ofquestion as too much time would beconsumed in slow poling, trackingand paddling against the heavy cur-rent and rapids on the rivers we hadtraversed. Some idea of the laborand tediousness of such travel may bederived from a statement made thewriter by Mr. Iserhoff, tlie factor fromMartins Falls, who told us that ittook him only five days with histwelve Indians to down the fourlumdred mile stretch of the AlbanyRiver from Martins Falls to FortAlbany, but that on the return upstream, travelling sixteen hours a day,it would take at least twenty-five daysto return to his post. But one coursetherefore remained to us and that wasto sail our canoes out into the bayand cruise south two hundred andfifty miles to Moose Factory, theHudsons Bay Companys post at theend of the bay. Canoe travel on the Bay is mostlya matter of mathematics beginningwith the
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