What a feed at 2 P.M. lunch. Climbing ridge,
saw that lake empties by little strait into another small lake just
alongside, at south. Stream flows from that south. Therefore we
are on Hamilton River waters. George and I went scouting to bluffs
we saw from trees on ridge. Both lost. George got back before
dark. I spent night on hill, 2 miles southwest. No matches or
grub. Scared a little. Heard big river, found it flows southeast.
Must go into Hamilton, but it is a big one, several times as big as
the Northwest at its biggest. Where does it come from? Can it be
Michikamau?
Thursday, August 6th.--Slept some last night, lying on two dead
spruce tops, too wet and cold to sleep very well. Mosquitoes
awful. George went to my river. Wallace and I took canoe and went
into lake north of here. Cuttings, winter. George found river to
be big and deep. Straight, as though from Michikamau. Don't
believe this little creek of a Northwest comes from there. Will
portage to this river and try it.
Friday, August 7th.--Portaged 2 miles to river on our south; good
paddling save for a rapid now and then. So big we think, Low's map
to the contrary, that it comes from Michikamau.
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