Rod and gun . rmation isconsidered confidential and sealedamong the Indians. However, whilePoison would not give any secrets away,he was good enough to refer us to theagent of Revillon Freres post, furthernorth, who, he said, knew of some goodhunting sections. About threein the afternoonwe crossed thewildest part ofLongLakecom-ing into view ofseveral lar g eand very wellshaped moun-tains one ofwhich look e dlike a sugarloaf, and theother an ele-phants backand he mo u n-tains, not more than seven or eight hundred feet high,tower over the others to such an extentthat they are very consp
Rod and gun . rmation isconsidered confidential and sealedamong the Indians. However, whilePoison would not give any secrets away,he was good enough to refer us to theagent of Revillon Freres post, furthernorth, who, he said, knew of some goodhunting sections. About threein the afternoonwe crossed thewildest part ofLongLakecom-ing into view ofseveral lar g eand very wellshaped moun-tains one ofwhich look e dlike a sugarloaf, and theother an ele-phants backand he mo u n-tains, not more than seven or eight hundred feet high,tower over the others to such an extentthat they are very conspicuous, and makewelcome objects to the newly arrivingvoyagers paddling up this very largestretch of inland water. Even my guideDavid, who had said nothing all thewhile we were together that day, wentintoecstacies over the sight and exclaim-ed in his gruff Indian fashion, Look!big! mountain! At the upperend of this lake we passedinto a very narrow bay, filled with minia-ture conical shaped islands, looking like. KEVILLOX FKERE S LAKE AT TH the pinnacles of mountains entombed inthe lake, and exposing their crests abovewater; and at the extreme end of this in-let we landed. Here we found a logcabin, one end of which was convertedinto a store with a rough counter andcrude shelves, and the other was used asa residence for the storekeeper. Thiswas a post of Revillon Freres of France,who have recently come to Canada,and are opening up an extensive trade inthe paths of the Hudson Bay found the post in charge of JohnMacDonald, who was born at MooseFactory, and served twenty-two years ir»the Hudson Bay Company, at that was extremely obliging and renderedus every assistance required. The storeand its few shelves of supplies in thislonely spot so far north, was quite inter-esting. Prominently displayed on thewalls as you entered was a sign printed in large blackletters, stating,No credit—which was cer-tainly familiarto many of usand gave noend of amuse-ment
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