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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.