Chapter 9

The "Nor'-west Angle"--The Company's House--Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud"--On the Lake of the Woods--A Gallant Cook--Buns _à l'imprevu_--A Man overboard!--Camping out--Clear Water Bay--Our First Portage--A Noble Savage--How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names--At our Journey's End.