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L E S S E R S L A V E R I V E R A N D L A K E 51
pins. About one a. m. a cry arose from the night- watch that
the boats were swamping. A l l hands turned out, lading was
removed, and the scows hauled up on the shingle, the rollers
p i l i n g on shore with a height and fury perfectly astonishing
for such a lake. By morning the tempest was at its height,
continuing a l l day and into the night. The sunset that eveni
n g exhibited some of the grandest and wildest sky scenery
we had ever beheld. In the west a vast bank of luminous
orange cloud, edged by torn fringes of green and gray; in
the south a sea of amethyst, and stretching from north to
east masses of steel gray and pearl, shot w i t h brilliant, shafts
and tufts of golden vapour. The whole sky streamed with
r i ch colouring i n the fierce wind, as i f possessed at once by
the genii of beauty and storm. The boatmen, noting its
aspect, predicted worse weather; but, fortunately, morning
belied the omens— our trials were over.
We were now nearing Shaw's Point, a long willowed spit
of land, called after a whimsical old chief- factor of the Hudson's
B a y Company who had charge of this district over sixty
years before. He appears to have been a man of many eccentricities,
one of which was the cultivation a la Chinois of a
very long finger- nail, which he used as a spoon to eat his
egg. But of h im anon. By four p. m. we had rounded his
Point, and come into view of Wyaweekamon—" The Outlet
"— a rudimentary street with several trading stores, a
b i l l i a r d saloon and other accessories of a brand- new village in
a very old wilderness.
Here we were at the treaty point at last, safe and sound,
with new interests and excitements before us; with w i l d man
instead of w i l d weather to encounter; with discords to harmonize
and suspicions to allay by human kindness, perhaps by
human firmness, but mainly by the just and generous terms
proffered by Government to an isolated but highly interesting
and deserving people.
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| OCR | L E S S E R S L A V E R I V E R A N D L A K E 51 pins. About one a. m. a cry arose from the night- watch that the boats were swamping. A l l hands turned out, lading was removed, and the scows hauled up on the shingle, the rollers p i l i n g on shore with a height and fury perfectly astonishing for such a lake. By morning the tempest was at its height, continuing a l l day and into the night. The sunset that eveni n g exhibited some of the grandest and wildest sky scenery we had ever beheld. In the west a vast bank of luminous orange cloud, edged by torn fringes of green and gray; in the south a sea of amethyst, and stretching from north to east masses of steel gray and pearl, shot w i t h brilliant, shafts and tufts of golden vapour. The whole sky streamed with r i ch colouring i n the fierce wind, as i f possessed at once by the genii of beauty and storm. The boatmen, noting its aspect, predicted worse weather; but, fortunately, morning belied the omens— our trials were over. We were now nearing Shaw's Point, a long willowed spit of land, called after a whimsical old chief- factor of the Hudson's B a y Company who had charge of this district over sixty years before. He appears to have been a man of many eccentricities, one of which was the cultivation a la Chinois of a very long finger- nail, which he used as a spoon to eat his egg. But of h im anon. By four p. m. we had rounded his Point, and come into view of Wyaweekamon—" The Outlet "— a rudimentary street with several trading stores, a b i l l i a r d saloon and other accessories of a brand- new village in a very old wilderness. Here we were at the treaty point at last, safe and sound, with new interests and excitements before us; with w i l d man instead of w i l d weather to encounter; with discords to harmonize and suspicions to allay by human kindness, perhaps by human firmness, but mainly by the just and generous terms proffered by Government to an isolated but highly interesting and deserving people. |
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