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D O W N T H E P E A C E R I V E R. 101
ration per head at the Company's prairie posts was eight
pounds of fresh meat, which was all eaten, its equivalent
being two pounds of pemmican, the enormity of this Gargantuan
feast may be imagined. But we ourselves were not bad
hands at the trencher. In fact, we were always hungry. So
I do not reproduce the foregoing facts as a reproach, but
rather as a meagre tribute to the prowess of the great of
old— the men of unbounded stomach!
On the afternoon of the 4th we rounded Point Providence,
the soil exposures sandy, the timber dense but slender, and
early next morning reached the Quatre Fourches, which was
at that time flowing into Lake Athabasca. It is simply a
waterway of some thirty miles in length, which connects
Peace River with the lake, and resembles, i n size and colour,
Red River i n Manitoba. It is one of " the rivers that t u r n "
— so called from their reversing their current at different
stages of water. A small stream of this kind connects the
South Saskatchewan with the Qu'Appelle, and another, a
navigable river, the Lower Saskatchewan with Cumberland
Lake. The Quatre Fourches is thus both an inlet and an outlet,
but not of the lake i n a right sense. The real outlet is
the Rocher River, which joins the Peace River at the intersection
of latitude 59 with the 111.30th degree of longitude,
beyond which the united streams are called the Great Slave
River.
The Quatre Fourches—" The Four Forks "— gets it? name
frem the junction of a channel which connects a small lake
called the Mamawee w i t h the south- west angle of Lake Athabasca,
Fort Chipewyan being situated on an opposite shore
upon an arm of the lake, here about six miles wide. The
stream is sluggish, and is thickly wooded to the water's edge,
with here and there an exposure of red granite. It is a
very beautiful stream, and it was a pleasure to get out of
the great river and its oppressive vastness into the familiar-looking,
homely water, its eastern rocks and exquisite curves
and bends. Rounding a point, we came upon a camp of
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| OCR | D O W N T H E P E A C E R I V E R. 101 ration per head at the Company's prairie posts was eight pounds of fresh meat, which was all eaten, its equivalent being two pounds of pemmican, the enormity of this Gargantuan feast may be imagined. But we ourselves were not bad hands at the trencher. In fact, we were always hungry. So I do not reproduce the foregoing facts as a reproach, but rather as a meagre tribute to the prowess of the great of old— the men of unbounded stomach! On the afternoon of the 4th we rounded Point Providence, the soil exposures sandy, the timber dense but slender, and early next morning reached the Quatre Fourches, which was at that time flowing into Lake Athabasca. It is simply a waterway of some thirty miles in length, which connects Peace River with the lake, and resembles, i n size and colour, Red River i n Manitoba. It is one of " the rivers that t u r n " — so called from their reversing their current at different stages of water. A small stream of this kind connects the South Saskatchewan with the Qu'Appelle, and another, a navigable river, the Lower Saskatchewan with Cumberland Lake. The Quatre Fourches is thus both an inlet and an outlet, but not of the lake i n a right sense. The real outlet is the Rocher River, which joins the Peace River at the intersection of latitude 59 with the 111.30th degree of longitude, beyond which the united streams are called the Great Slave River. The Quatre Fourches—" The Four Forks "— gets it? name frem the junction of a channel which connects a small lake called the Mamawee w i t h the south- west angle of Lake Athabasca, Fort Chipewyan being situated on an opposite shore upon an arm of the lake, here about six miles wide. The stream is sluggish, and is thickly wooded to the water's edge, with here and there an exposure of red granite. It is a very beautiful stream, and it was a pleasure to get out of the great river and its oppressive vastness into the familiar-looking, homely water, its eastern rocks and exquisite curves and bends. Rounding a point, we came upon a camp of |
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