trud along the shore climbing higher and higher and as the smoke had now cleared away somewhat. I gradually came to realize that G.Bear Lake was before me, and that we were camped on an uplift within a mile or less of the open Lake. On reaching the highest point I had a good view of the Great Lakes which stretches in the horizon on the east west and north. A few bluffs near shore and a group of high ones some miles out were all that broke the monotony of the waters. In Bruins: several hundred feet above the level of the Lake were several ponds out of great depth and in this I saw a species of fish, and secured a small one. Two others about 16 miles long were seen but I could not secure one. They swarm about close together, sometimes near the surface, and sometimes going quite deep, and fudging on the rocks like suckers Toward evening we turn off the Traps Taking two [illegible] and paddled down the creek both Lake and along the shore northward a short distance until we came to a good place to set a net where we camped in a little sheltered bay behind an some islands, just to the west a bay miles or about half a mile. At our Camp the ground slopes gently back to a high rocky hill. A few good sized white spruce and low willows and birches cover the point. The birches are now most all turned yellow and the willows also though some of them are just blossoming. The shores of the Lake except in places like the one where we are, are high and rocky and often are precipitously from the water and the four islands are rocky with perhaps a few scattering trees.