forehead.

When, after much groaning and sweating, we finally arrived with all
of our outfit at the foot of the hill, it took the combined efforts
of all three of us to get the canoe to the top, whence we followed
an old caribou trail for a mile along the summit, camping just
above the smooth water that Hubbard and George had seen on Sunday.
We were all completely exhausted when we reached camp. While
staggering along with the canoe a hundred yards from the tent, I
became so weak that I suddenly sank to the ground and the others
had to come to my rescue and bring in the canoe. But the night was
cool and starry, and we sat long by our fire and talked and drank
pea soup and tea, and when it came time for us to turn in to our
soft bed of fragrant spruce boughs, our troubles had been quite
forgotten.

The good water that Hubbard and George thought was two miles long
shortened down, when we actually came to it the next morning, to
less than half a mile, affording us only a meagre opportunity to
make use of the canoe. For a little distance we again bucked the
rapids, and then left the river for a rough portage of a mile and a
half over the hills on the shore. Again at night we were
exhausted, but again we had a fine camp on a point overlooking the
river. The crisp air came laden with the perfume of spruce and
balsam. On the surrounding hills the fir trees were darkly
silhouetted against the sky, radiant with its myriads of stars.
The roar of the river could be heard dying away into a mere murmur
among the hills below.

"Boys," said Hubbard, after we had made a good supper of a mess of