And this is better than Montreal," she answered, then turned to talk to a gentleman who had come on board before them, and was bound for a fishing camp higher up the lake.
Lake Temiskaming is thirty miles long, and they reached its end in the evening.

But, as Mr.Selincourt had made arrangements to keep the boat for use as a floating hotel until the next morning, their first night in the wilds was a very comfortable one.
At dawn next morning everyone was astir.

Three river boats were landed; these were made light enough for portage work, and strong enough for weight carrying.

With them were landed some men engaged at a point farther down the lake, who had undertaken to work the boats up the Abbitibbi River to Hannah Bay.

The men, although there were plenty of them, looked askance at the luggage which had to be unladen from the steamer and packed into the boats.