CHAPTER VII. Lake Athabasca and Its Fond Du Lac

LAKE ATHABASCA AND ITS FOND DU LAC

Farewell to the Mounted Police--Our blankets on the deck--Fern odours by untravelled ways--Typewriting and kodaking in 20 hours of daylight--Navigating Lake Athabasca by the power o' man--A 23-inch trout--First white women at Fond du Lac--Carlyle among the Chipewyans, a Fond du Lac library--The hermit padre and the hermit thrush--Worn north trails of the trapper--Caribou by the hundred thousands--The phalarope and the suffragette