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AppendIX 1 213muddy or stony shore while our guides pushed the canoe oftenwaist deep through shallows + rapids. Mosquitoes swarm. Skygray. Progress I mile per hour? GreenJolds oJhills hem us in sparseJywooded. Every now + then the canoe ferries us aX to where it ispossible to walk in the open. Unwashed unbrushed beveiled webegin our journey up the Rat. Several new flowers, a lovelywillow Herb + pink Oenothera. All I write now in 2 veils wetankles + knees Lazarus + Jimmy are making huge bonfire toroast the goose + we sit on flat stones in the smoke to protectourselves from the little enemy. The sun carne out on thatstony spit + a puff of wind carne + we had a happy hour with thegoose who Lazarus plucked opened out like a wafer + toastedfore and aft by spiking it on a spit which he sharpened to a finewhite point Jor balancing the other end on stones. Tough bird but ahappy meal veils up + we even had a sponge + cleaned our teethin the river. We made I suppose 4- miles in 3 hours lunchedfrom I to 2.30 + then went on. Conditions became worse + inthe next 2 1/2 hours we made hardJy 2 miles. We Xed one or 2 very swiftplaces rapids in fact, diagonally getting carried down at a giddyrate. Then there carne deep + swift water + we took to trackingwith the rope now + then, Lazarus in canoe close to bankJimmy pulling on rope ahead, this was slow work as they had toclear track 1st on edge with axe-River wide + sub-divided, wescrambled along banks all day except when they ferried us aX +every now + then we waded aX a shallow arm. At 5 0' c we carneto deep impossible swift water + camped on mud + mare's tailpassing back a lovely spot with a little breeze, we cut youngpoplar tops for bedding + partly unloaded canoe + fixed upmosquito bar. At this point L. announced the river was risingfast + our camp being only I ft. above water we must move so wepacked up + they canoed up a still side stream we scrambled ontill a fall among snags stopped us. Unloaded again carried canoe +goods 20 yards to a spruce grove + camped in a bad place but theonly possible allOwing ourselves say 2 ft. above M water level ona tributary. Things don't look cheerful. Water rising fast +Lazarus says it may take days to go down. Progress impossible.flooding out possible mosquitoes very bad: dirty sleepy.However 'tis wild country and solitary we saw fresh moosetracks in mud. Supper on pork + potato + rice + maple sugar.L. kindles bonfire by peeling bark of old willow. So to bed at 9HFlitting" ourselves.FRIDAY 9 JULYWrote all this under difficulties can't sit up under bar couldn't make f pen inkrun. We slept on + off 12 hours. Gwen got up + reconnoitred:water risen, got up again in 2 hours + it was falling a little. Weall had breakfast about 10 the Indians very sleepy + silent: skythundery prospects gloomy. We ate pork + bannock + Pilotbread (ship's biscuits) + then retired to our bags with boots on+ I read Macbeth aloud while Gwen mended our veils killingmosquitoes often inside our bar. For meals we stand inside our bonfiresmoke till our eyes are weeping + anoint our chins withCitronella oil. All night we rub on Bicarb. of soda + spray withflit. After lunch at about 2 (Canadian Boiled dinner + beans cookedyesterd