Diary, 1903-1904, of trips with A. F. Camsell, Merritt Cary, and Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
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Mall went 15 miles Tuesday Aug 18 M did not leave Camp until after dinner We left the bay and turning northward, left on up this certain shore. Most of it is rocky and rather high and sparsely wooded about the middle of the afternoon we passed a bay with candy shores and high drifted banks of sand extended back for some distance. The soil then became better and the forest more luxuriant. M left at about the middle of the afternoon but found no kill him. M camped on the shore in a very mother spot some of the White Spruces are 14 inches in diameter and about 75 feet high. I cut out some topsoil. Some & Richardson's oil at camp also grayshuck think Bacon, Moore and 139. Carraban have been killed by Indians camped here Roberts MR common here in the evening Wednesday Aug 19 M left camp rather early and paddled about 5 miles northward along the Lake and nearly to its end and entering a bay on the west side but it its outlet. M descended second slight rapids and entered a channel the current here running very much. The N shore was sparsely wooded. The south also for some distance but perhaps the S shore is of sand and higher and well wooded. This channel soon expanded into a good sized Lake which we left by a strait on the W side before reaching its end. From this we emerged into Avonlin Lake circular in outline and perhaps 4 miles across. On its N.E. shore is a range of high hills 500-1000 ft high, forested rocky girt generally wooded. In a This channel soon expanded into a long narrow Lake. At its outlet M made a portage & about half