well-wooded hills, by which the lake is surrounded. Five miles from
the outlet a rocky point juts out into the water, and above the point
an arm of the lake reaches into the hills to the northward to a
distance of six miles, almost at right angles to the main lake. In
the arm there are several small, rocky islands which sustain a scrubby
growth of black spruce and fir balsam.

Hitherto the Indian maps had been of little assistance to us. No
estimate of distance could be made from them, and the lakes through
which we had passed (not all of them shown on the map) were
represented by small circles with nothing to indicate at what point on
their shores the trail was to be found. Lake Nipishish, however, was
drawn on a larger scale and with more detail, and we readily located
the trail leading out of the arm which I have mentioned.

After a day's work through several small lakes or ponds, with short
intervening portages, and a trail on the whole well defined and easily
followed, we came one afternoon to a good-sized lake of irregular
shape which Pete promptly named Washkagama (Crooked Lake).

A stream flowed into Washkagama near the place where we went ashore,
and it seemed to me probable that our route might be along this
stream, which it was likely drained lakes farther up; but a search in
the vicinity failed to uncover any signs of the trail, and the irregu-
lar shape of the lake suggested several other likely places for it.
We were, therefore, forced to go into camp, disappointing as it was,
until we should know our position to a certainty.

The next day was showery, but we began in the morning a determined
hunt for the trail. Stanton remained in camp to make needed repairs