With fly-rod and camera . oncome in? Well come to them shortly, 1 replied When we reached the station at Leweys Island, theterminus of the railroad, and the point of departure forthe Schooclics, we found the miscellaneous crowd that al-ways assembles at such out-of-the-way places for the arrivalof the train. Among the faces I recognized my old Indian guidesEtienne Leweys, Sol Sepsis, Pete, his brother, and others,who greeted us heartily. In a short time our luggagewas removed from the cars to the canoes which we wereto have, and as soon as w^e had changed our clothes atthe hotel for others bet
With fly-rod and camera . oncome in? Well come to them shortly, 1 replied When we reached the station at Leweys Island, theterminus of the railroad, and the point of departure forthe Schooclics, we found the miscellaneous crowd that al-ways assembles at such out-of-the-way places for the arrivalof the train. Among the faces I recognized my old Indian guidesEtienne Leweys, Sol Sepsis, Pete, his brother, and others,who greeted us heartily. In a short time our luggagewas removed from the cars to the canoes which we wereto have, and as soon as w^e had changed our clothes atthe hotel for others better adapted to bush life, we joinedour guides at the shore, and, embarking in the birches,were soon upon the waters of Big Lake, the lower ofthe chain. Our guides were old Pete Sepsis, one of the mostreliable Indians on the lake, and Mitchell Leweys, theoldest son of Etienne, a good canoeman and a first-rateall-round man for a fishing or hunting- trip in that companions, vvdio were a little of the llo-ht-weight. o^ i6o JVitJi Fly-Rod and Camera. order, occupied Sepsiss canoe, while I, together with agreater portion of the lug-gage, made a good load forLeweyss birch. The Passamaquoddy birch glides over the water likean eggshell, and with a sturdy hand at the paddle it goeswith surprising swiftness. In less than three-quarters ofan hour we had reached Indian Point, a settlement ofIndians five miles above the island, and this too with thecanoes loaded well down with ourselves and baggage. This settlement comprised some four hundred was in a flourishing condition, had a school house, apriest house, or church, and there were about two hun-dred acres of land under cultivation, growing Indian corn,potatoes, beans, wheat, oats and vegetables, in fact nearlyeverything grown on northern farms except fruit, the sea-sons being too short for its successful culture. After landing at the settlement, and inspecting thevarious improvements, spending a short half hour, we re-
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