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148 to the number in the party and the probable duration of the trip. On hunting expeditions a guide usually accompanies each guest. He "packs" the baskets, "carries" the canoe, and if a moose is killed, brings out the meat as stipulated under the rather severe Nova Scotia laws.

Angling-parties go up West River for the day, a motor-boat conveying the canoe train to the mouth of the river and calling again at night. Trouting is best in the spring and fall. There are longer fishing trips to Frozen Ocean, so named because the ice breaks there late in the spring, and to Peskuwes, and Peskuwaw, and Pebbie Loggitch, two lakes and a Short Carry on the west side of Kedgemakoogee. In the same direction are famous moose pastures. Red Lake, near Peskuwaw, abounds in black duck. There are other regions equally renowned for partridge, snipe and woodcock. Curiously enough, sea gulls flock in the spring to nest about these inland waters.

The country southwest of Kedgemakoogee has a grotesque physiognomy. A high mossy plain unwatered by lake or river is a-tilt with boulders, the largest of which attain the height of good-sized houses. Some are peaked like tents, others are shaped like carts or crouching animals. Little rocks grow on bigger ones like warts on a grey-beard's nose. Here is a fallen pillar and there a tumbled throne. It might be an abandoned Sodom