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Down the Porcupine r 49Gwendolen Dorrien Smith.Porcupine River above OldGrow.JuJy 1926. GlaraGoltman Rogers (ty~an).Gollection of Edward/&all'!J.tourists who had flocked up by steamer from Seattle to the Yukon, and had satcomfortably on deck day after day watching the country pass by them, we heardthat they had seen, from their deck chairs, a whole herd of caribou on migration.Such is the chancy luck of the traveller.We stayed in bed for a couple of hours after that sudden awakening. just inorder to enjoy the delicious scent of the muskeg and Ledum on which we lay. Wehad seen wolf tracks on the beach below but no wolf had come near us.On the whole those were days of calm and leisure, with some anxious momentsover snags and swirling water, but no need for strenuous effort and no call onour powers of endurance, so we enjoyed them to the full. Mter lunch we wouldtake shifts of work and rest. while one steered the canoe with the paddle the other