Diary, 1904, of trip to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
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5 miles and encamped our accomod of the "lay" of the country. It is impossible to approach near the bases of the higher mountains further up the river and they can not be reached without the expenditure of more time than I can spare or I shall induce to mark these remains one a little from this camp. I saw a rumbling rabbits, a lynx, and foxes of a wolf, bear, and a moose and her small calf. These sights have now entirely changed their village except that they have a few saddling white hares Saturday, June 4. Started after breakfast to climb the hill and reached its summit before noon. Took several photos. From the summit Mt. Caswell on whose bare summit much snow still remained, lay at a distance of perhaps 15 miles. To the east the meadenge was opened out and beyond as far as eye could reach, stretch ded a vast forest, a good valley being visible. To the S.E. between the Niles and the Mack Valley, a broad expanse of marshy with hundreds of studdles and in the distance in the same ducks was a long low ridge perhaps the Caribou Notch. To the Northmark or marked the broad valley of the North Wahani River.