Diary, 1903-1904, of trips with A. F. Camsell, Merritt Cary, and Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
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Osmilanchen - the fruit just ripening Cranberries also just opening Artemis + Baneacon pres. occasional Alnus alnobetula - a common shrub. Butila polygynepera is one of the commonest trees in this Country. Passed through the afternoon Kelled an immature Goshawk near its nest where it was raised. The nest was on a small bush about 15 feet up, from a small fringe and was very beautiful. The left one was seen but was too shy & fled. Many broods of ducky were seen some flying. Then the Hawks nest soon a flock of Wood Carban Sand flies are beginning to be troublesome In the waters we are wondering through. Whitefish and small Pickerel are common. I skimmed what specimens I had and set out a line of traps in the spruce woods If this one. From where we started up the channel to this high crag was about 14 miles or more. At the Crag the channel was only about 50 yards wide and a fast current flowed through it. On the face of the crag a Great Hawk had a nest (above the country was hung on Paying this visit, we kept on the same course for some miles through a broad channel and then came to a minute Island lying across our course. We took the left hand channel and after going 3 or 4 miles, entered in a narrow passage between two islands. In the N.W. is a range of high hills. To the west of that the Indian thanks we will make a portage out of the Lake. The islands here are high and rocky with many very sharp angular blocks. In other places they are well wooded. Several Great Eagles have been seen just before we Camped.