EPMON TUN PTO LESSER SLAVE LAKE 44

The old Tndian, Peokns, beading the Filles Hae, waa a
study, His garb was a pair of pants toned down tx the
aour of the arise they daly sank in, 8 sbiet and corduroy
vest fo match, a fuded kerchief tied around his fexcd, om
Assomption sash, atel a begriated body inside of aha
shart, squarely bnilt frame, clad with rounded mutes
nothing dagular about fase Shut the nerves within tireless
ag ihe atveans he pulled ageines. Qa the lead, ty
bis Inng arms swaag Hke peadulums, Bis whole §

se the tramp ef a gatila. Sane cosese black hairs 2 ee
here and there fo his mpper Upc his Ane brown eyes were
embedded ia wrinkles, and bis svarthy features, thoneks
clumey, were kindiy-—-a geod-luamonred face, which, at x
eheerfal word or glanes, Lt mp xt ome with the grotesane

grin of an animate gargosle. This was the tydeal obd-tiae
tracker of the North; the taller whe heought tn fhe pre

drets of man’s art in the East, aud fook ont Xatnre’s returus
oe the Indian's outpnt—ewer since the trade Neet penstrated

ilesse exslless solinades.

‘The farest sennery now. became very sivikiag: primeval
qaasnee of goplar and bureb Si dtage, whiel spread axay und
upward in stnoothest slopes, Hke cast Jawss, studded with
the sonsbre grea af the pine taps which towered bore thers.
Here and there the bends of the iver emossed af auch angles
as to anclose a Inkedike expanse of water. The river alas
took a Ane slogring fam ins frihutarica, a sort of preenish-
yellow tage, ad now became Recked with bubbles a
Saami, ao that we feared the freshet, which weld have
Paseo.

At mid-day we regehod Shoal Poland—Labwas Min
aud hens the poles were got oul and the traebers toch
wihddie af the river for nearly x mle, unt deep water was
weatbed. Fleece oniners had evidently been at work here,
bas with yomr results, we were fol Below Baptiste C seek,
however, the yiddd bad bece tory, and several reiners