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Saturday Oct 22 to Buffalo Lake
We left before sunrise and drove northwards through
Paplar woods. The road
was not so level as formerly,
and in some places a few
stones showed. We saw little
interest. Stopped and had
dinner at the house of an
Indian who lived near a lake
which empties into Heart Port,
which enters the Lake at this
point. We got to Buffalo
Lake, which connects by a
wide river with Kinn Slope.
Stopped at the house of our
guide's son. He says that there
are good caribou about here
within 10 miles but they are
not common. No one here remembers
when buffalo were here. No knows
if no jumping deer about here
but his father says that they
are killed about Place Rove
Crimmy or just below, and
a pair of horns which we saw
came from 3 miles below Pore
Rime Landing. A man who
lives at Winagami Lake has killed
12 moose this fall within 70
days between his place and
Round Lake, and another
Indian named Blackburn has
killed 12 near Little Prairie.
Another his wife's brother has
killed 1 near Whitefish Lake
lately. He says moose are
unusually plentiful this fall.
Ruffed Grouse were very common
today and we killed a number
and photographed one