Volume 1

12 GUN FLINT LAKE TO LAKE SAGANAGA.
soon took US to Escalier portage, over which we carried
about 60 paces, when we embarked and proceeded to the
Cheval de Bois, an ugly portage of about 400 paces. Thence
to Portage des Gros Pins,''* which is about 700 paces, to a
small lake. Through this we passed to a chain of rapids
and small lakes and down to Marabou portage, which is
about 200 paces. This is succeeded by several small rapids,
through which we passed to Pointe a la Framboise [Raspberry
point], where we camped about dark. The men were
much fatigued. We found the air very cold. Gummed
they had received some dam-
our canoes by torch-light, as
age in coming down the last rapid.
July 2^th. At four o'clock we embarked, and having
descended several rapids came to Petit Rocher de Saginaga,'^
a small portage of about 60 paces. At nine o'clock
requiring discharges or carriages at frequent short intervals. The " ugly one,"
which Henry names Cheval de Bois, is nowr known as Wood Horse portage, of
which Thompson's MS. remarks that it would be an excellent place for
being, in fact,
'*
a dam site, better than any other for that purpose.
a mill,
Portage of the Big Pines, now simply Pine p., 640 paces or 400 yards long,
off to the left over a ridge, from a sort of bay, in a N. W. direction to a small
lake. It thus leaves the channel of Rainy r. to avoid some obstructions in the
latter. Henry's Marabou portage was also known as Maraboeuf p., a name
which appears on some of the modern maps ; his Pointe a la Framboise I do
not identify. The route along here, before reaching the falls to be presently
mentioned, includes obstructions which are noted in Thompson's MS. as
Muddy portage or Grande Decharge, Stone rapids, and Cedar portage. The
route is through or past Granite bay, Gneiss 1., Maraboeuf 1., and Cross bay,
of modern nomenclature ; it proceeds in a very crooked but on the whole N. W.
course of 7 m. into Maraboeuf 1.,
and then due.N. 4 m. to Saganaga falls.
'3 Little Saganaga rock, position of Saganaga falls ;
carry on the left 25
yards or more, according to height of water, and proceed about i3