Diary, 1903-1904, of trips with A. F. Camsell, Merritt Cary, and Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
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Friday Sept 11. Left Camp at about 7:30 and proceeded westward along the coast which was fairly straight. The shore was mostly rocky and rather low and some sparsely wooded ridges extended back to the Mts. which are now lower than those nearer the point but have some snow on them. They are wooded to their summits. Larger areas have been burned and at short distance in this distance left a nearer view shows them to be covered with willows and other shrubs whose changing colors so magnificently colored different shades of yellow, red and brown giving a beautiful effect in the forenoon or hand quite a stretch of steep clay banks. In the afternoon we passed along a long bay with gravelly shores and in one place high steep banks of quartz and spruce covered shore, and just two or three small miles stands we encamped at sunset in a small bend bay among the spruce trees. This part is low and flat. both a mile or two to the far hills about abrooklets. As rather common live oak and tomatoes) are beginning to change color, and a sort aya. More tracks are common in the lower ground and the sides of the hills apparently afford the animals good pasturage. Saturday Sept 12. I left our camp early and after paddling a short distance out sail and sailed about 5 miles when we had to put ashore, the same preventing us from making a long point ahead this is probably until nearly sunset tracks of Moose and Bear are common. When the wind went down we made a start, and rounded the long point which seems to be the turning point of the coast. The shore here trending southwest we put ashore here in a Shallow limestone Bay. The land as rather low and grown up in spruce and willows.