Friday May 29. We floated all night and passed the post at Latter Red Rim 30 miles below McMurray, about 4 p.m. The banks continued quite high all day. At about 2 o'clock we passed the site of Pierre au Calamet, one of the earliest posts to be established on this river or in the region. I examined the site and found the cellars and remains of one or two chimneys still marking the spot. Among the banks of the caves in cellars were two burrows of Arctomys. Many birds some not being noted before nor seen today and are elsewhere noted. The day was mostly fine but a shower with some wind came up in the afternoon so that we were nearly on the point of tying up one or two ocea. sions, but it cleared and we kept on into the night. Saturday, May 30. We floated all night and passed Poplar Point, 80 miles below Fort McMurray, about 6 a.m. at Point Bond there there are some cabins and where C. Fren., at the R.C.Co. maintain trading posts for a part of the winter, about 8 o'clock at this point the banks were high but the banks were above us very much lowered and shortly after this place is passed they became quite steep, steel corner bring away 8 or 10 feet above the present stagger of the water. Stretches of white Spruce alternate with groves of balsam Poplars with two sprain seem together. The undergrowth is faldus, various willows, cornel, etc. Shortly after noon we passed a long bank on the right where the bank was of gravel and upward of 10 feet in height. Beyond this the banks again became lower. A mile or two below this stretch or more obliged to tie up to the bank. The road being so strong that we could not round the steep sharp bends with the heavy scows. In the poplar woods near where we tired up. We found a family of quailin groves foxes and collected one, also took a snap of one of them among the willows. The willows and Poplars are today showing their colors quite conspicuously. The day has been quite warm and small birds are common. At night the wind is still blowing and ice shell probably form where we are.