Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . gs, and onedoe. As a matter of fact he kills does, fawns, or anythingthat comes along, and the incriminating evidence is easily dis-posed of with the knife. A two mile trip by canoe brought us across the northernend of Grand I^ake. Here we unloaded our outfit againand carried our luggage a short distance to a trappers cabinwhere we remained for the night, the two guides and myselfsleeping on the floor. We were quite comfortable, however,and at sunrise we resumed the journey, engaging the trap-pers to carry out two extra loads as our material was quiteheaiy. Our indi
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . gs, and onedoe. As a matter of fact he kills does, fawns, or anythingthat comes along, and the incriminating evidence is easily dis-posed of with the knife. A two mile trip by canoe brought us across the northernend of Grand I^ake. Here we unloaded our outfit againand carried our luggage a short distance to a trappers cabinwhere we remained for the night, the two guides and myselfsleeping on the floor. We were quite comfortable, however,and at sunrise we resumed the journey, engaging the trap-pers to carry out two extra loads as our material was quiteheaiy. Our individual loads weighed from sixty to eightypounds, except that John Pennell must have shouldered apack of at least one hundred pounds. The trail led first southeast over a series of wooded hills,then east through sparsely timbered swamps, finally emerg-ing into the country known as Hinds Plains. In stoppingfor one of our frequent rests (as we had already carried ourpacks about six miles), evidences of caribou were very ap- 87. OUR PERMANENT CAMP LOCATED IN A PINE RIDGE ADJACENTTO THE BARRENS parent. AVe passed several men earrying out eareasser>whieli often furnish the only fresh meat that the native seesthe year round. He surely earns this meat as far as laboris concerned foi- thiee caril)ou weigh about six hundredpounds, and one has carried this load on his shoiddersfor a distance of seven miles to the railroad, it seems like aman-sized job. About one oclock in the afternoon of October 27 wepitched our tent in a large grove of spruce. Everything waswet and soggy from the heavy rains that had recently , om- duffle was dry and we were soon comfortablyinstalled in the camp wliich was to be our headquarters forthe next twenty days. AVhile travelling by rail and steam-sliip I had contracted a severe cold, and one would imaginethat sleeping above the damp ground on only a scant mat-tress of evergreen bows would tend to aggravate this condi- 88 tioii, yet at the
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