A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador

med to come out of the ground. When despair of getting any sleep had taken possession of me, I turned with such calmness as I could muster to the task of killing them off. By diligent

me to reveal hundreds of the vicious littl

ere mosquitoes were concerned, for with four pipes going in the tent the mosquitoes had little chanc

rapid. Our course, a few miles above Seal Lake, turned directly west, and as we entered Lake Wachesknipi high hills appeared ahead, showing deepest blue and purple under the cloudy sky. Again we made ninete

delay. There was little one could do in camp, and lounging

trung up for shelter on either side of the fire, was covered with fresh cut shavings. Job had returned, and was carefully putting the finish

would be impossible as the hill was altogether too steep and slippery. I was much disappointed. It seemed such an ignominious sort of thing too, to be

were very wild and fine, but fortunately they did not extend far, and about three-quarters of a mile of portaging would put us on smooth water again. Here for the first time we found the rocks along the shore and in the river-bed of varied and beautiful colours. There were among them red and green and blue of many and exquisite shades-the greens being par

yed more than half the week. Soon the rain ceased, and, passing the portages round Seal and Cascade Rapids, we found ourselves on smooth water again. The sky cleared as we proceeded, and an occasional gleam of sunshi

became quite stirred up over the prospect of an encounter with what looked like a bear picnic. I watched eagerly as we approached, rather wondering how we were going to manage five of them, when in a most inexplicable manner they dwindled

fter a late breakfast the task of loading the outfit into the canoes was not yet

to the north shore. The movement in camp suddenly became electrical. The last of the load was thrown

hills away out of our reach, and was glad. When George took the rifle to shoot I was not in the least afraid for the caribou, because I knew he would not be hit and he was not. But, Alas! I soon learned that it was not meant he should

the caribou was ploughing through the water just as before. After the second I could see him trembling and blood on the water-but he was still going on. Then I asked George to take his rifle and settle the matter quickly. He did, and the sound of the water as the caribou made his way through it ceased. I did not need to look again to know what had h

eration of skinning and cutting up had been performed,

was proving so beautiful and easy that my state of mind was one of continued surprise. I had none of the feeling of loneliness, which I knew every one would expect me to have. I did not feel far from home, but in reality less homeless than I had ever felt anywhere, since I knew my husband was never to come back to me. So far I had encountered none of the real stress of wilderness life, everything

lingly concealed, so that not until we were almost upon it could it be made out. Most mysterious of all was the last lake of our day's journey, where the rush of the entering river could plainly be seen, but appeared to come pouring forth from a gre

s things I had ever eaten, altogether different from any venison I had before tasted. An

oked out, and above were three broad circles of light with long- pointed fingers raying up to the centre directly over my tent as I wa

a heavy rapid below. All day our way led among high hills till towards evening, when they spread out to the north and south, and we saw ahead a terraced sand plain, several miles wide, with the hills again beyond. Here, coming in from the northwest

. The plain had once been sparsely, wooded but was burned over and very desolate looking now. Huckleberries, cranberries, and Labra

. We reached it the following morning about two miles or more above our camp. It was a beauty, about thirty feet in height. The canoes could be taken c

ecame conscious of a most delightful fragrance, and looking down I found myself in the midst of a tangle of the long, trailing vines of the twin flower (Linnea borealis), sweetest of all Labr

h, rocky point on the south shore, to find ourselves at the edge of the hill country again. Here the river was crowded between high, rocky hills where it flowed

others lay in the tent most of the afternoon, Joe and Gilbert not feeling very well. Trouble-change of diet with a little too much of it. Job on his return in the evening reported the river bending away to th

g came, the outfit had been taken forward three and a half miles. The three small lakes we had passed had give

on-these also being covered with the veiling. Pulling it over my head I tied it tight round my neck. It was most fearful and hideous to look upon, but it kept out the flies. The men insisted that I should have to take it off when we came to the Nascaupees else they would certainly shoot me. The flies were in clouds that day, and even their tapping on the o