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Appendix 1 207person has these tales or such like at 1st hand. Sat all aft. in wheel house. Eveningwandered outat woodpile + found dwarf Arum: mosquitoes very thick. At 9 0' cwe came out into a great space Great Slave Lake dotted withislands + sandbars the 2 schooners + the Hubaco Jying in the delta then weturned L. into a green bordered channel at the end of which wetied up by a flat little island not venturing out into Lakebecause of wind. Wonderful sunset: orange + blue line thatlooked like Mts but was only cloud or distance. Middle of nightwe touched at Resolution but did not get up. Huskies howledpassengers stumped hell of a night + little sleep. We put out intoLake but came back encountering too much sea + tied up under MissionIslandTUESDAY 15 JUNEWind still blOWing. We went ashore at 1.30 in ship's motor boat + started walkinground the sto~ shore. Came on 2 halforeeds in a bark + canvas shang livingthere to fish. Thry put us on a track so we walked on + on round 1 point afteranother now on the track now on the shore over boulders + piles of driftwood +soft 1/2 mouldy fibre. Saw Resolution prosperous red roofed settlement. FoundPink Orchis. After awhile plunged into thick bush to cut corners nightmareishgoing + alw'l)ls imaginingd'l)llight ahead where there was none however we gotback 6 a 'c having completeJy circled the island about 7 or 9 miles. Dwarfjuniperspruce + the Korrea leaved shrub everywhere. Mosquitoes in bush but none onshore. Anchored all night Iry Mission Island.WEDNESDAY 16 JUNESteamed on at 8.30 till 10 when wind changed + we anchored in shelter underGreen Island: the Distributor is no more than a barge + needsnearly a dead calm to X the Lake. After lunch a party of us wentashore: delightful island easier walking no mosquitoes or veryfew hot scent of spruce fresh wind sunshine masses of littlepink Orchis. Walked all round in a couple of hours or so. Talked a bit withBishop Brenner R. C. who inspects missions in all this district. He built a steamerat one time opposition to Hudson B'l)I now it is wrecked on one of the islands.Wind fell at sunset. The 2 schooners came up + anchored alongside. Calm sunset.THURSDAY 17 JUNE4.30 came round a bend + in misty morning saw Hay RiverSettlement. Went ashore. Very Indian tepees + tents: Ch. EMission + RC church + the usual store all on a peaceful river.Attractive place: an hour or two ashore + then after a 7 o'cbreakfast a dream journey through the Great Slave Lake toBeaver Lake: glassy sea clear sky myriads of ducks: thin greenline: great space. Iry cold wind wandered round ducks seeking shelter + puton all our coats. Long talk with Gray Nun the Mother Superiorwho goes "out" to Montreal + keeps touch with the world.Bumped over some sand bars + so to Providence about 3 a 'c. Several falseattempts to land in shallow water under the high bank where school childrenNuns priests + population were silhouetted also the church.Like a comic opera scene: Indian children of the mission boysin blue corduroy with large white ties girls in scarlet skirts whiteblouses + black boots. Went ashore to RC Mission Grand Meeting of our 6Sisters on board with the 6 or 7 other: thry fluttered like birds + twittered in themission passage: Then the Rose of the North a fat sweating sister took us over theschool an attractive 50 year old building. Then all wandered down thesettlement: very hot. Back to dinner on steamer. Some interestingyarns:Co~beare an old timer now 2nd engineer was talking of Indians + theirinevitable disappearance before white men. Course of nature might just as well letit go its own pace he s'l)ls-all this Gr'l)l Nun Mission work + others no good thryrelapse at once on leaVing school-girls quicker than b'!J's. Told story of himself +Indian: Sund'!J' morning: "Going to church?" "No. " "Supposeyou're waitingforR. C. Mission. "Just then an MP passed Iry 1/2 drunk Indian, "Now what haveyou to teach us." Co~beare walked 900 miles from Smith to Simpson tostake for gold + ditto back in about 3 winter months: riverbeing the only highway winter as in summer. Next chat we hadwas w. a bearded priest from Rome who has lived 20 years inColombo + is now inspecting the N after U.S.A. The BolshevistYankee tripper S'l)lS few people in U.S.A. know a~thingofthis Mackenzie R. trip+ some one else added that ma~ people at Edmonton are quite ignorant of it.Gwen took up with a gold toothed nugget of a trapper wearingbreeches high boots + an old womans coat jumper + bringing 5huskies up on the boat. He invited us to his shanty a biggishwood room ceiled neatly with brown paper a stove rough table Ichair + little else but the stink of martens in it. He had caught 4alive for breeding purposes but unluckily the male died + only3 females survive. He will now get a Govt. permit to catchanother alive this breeding being an experiment. He got 100skins last season: worth about 20 dollars cash. He isoffnertseasontrapping in hill country about 50 miles aw'l)I. A big party of Indians +half breeds on board now a lot of attractive sly-eyed slit eyedsmiling girls going home from school +c +c. A most interesting+ mixed crowd.FRIDAY 18 JUNEG awoke with sprained or strained foot all night very painful.Everyone buzzed offering advice + remedies or tales of theirwife's mother-in-Iaws sprained ankle knee or wrist. Salt + coldwater seemed best of remedies applied Wide river banks rather hllJher: