M. weariness began. No game. Bear and
some caribou tracks. Have not seen a partridge or porcupine. Seem
to be few fish. They come later and farther on.
Sunday, July 19th.--Minimum temp. last night 38 degrees. Fine day
and warm. Stayed in camp all day to rest. I got up at 7 and
caught about twenty trout, small. All pretty tired and enjoyed the
long sleep. At noon George and I started up the river, following
the hills. Found small rocky stream coming in about 1 mile up.
Suppose it is the Red Wine River. Two miles up a 2-mile stretch of
good water. Best of all the portage route leading in at the foot.
We followed this over the hill to the Red Wine River, and found old
cuttings. This pleases us a heap. It shows that we are on the old
Montagnais trail, that we will probably have their portage routes
clear through, and that they probably found lakes and good water
farther up, or they would never have fought this bad water. To-
morrow we will tackle the 2-mile portage with light hearts. We are
3 miles south of where Low's map places us. Am beginning to
suspect that the Nascaupee River, which flows through Seal Lake,
also comes out of Michikamau, and that Low's map is wrong.
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