- tunity of having a good noon-day fire, which of late had
been a rare luxury.
Pushing out our canoes, we continued the traverse of the coast to the westward in search of the Telzoa, but it could not be found that day.
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ICE ON THE SHORE OF MARKHAM LAKE.
On the morning of the following day, at the northwestern extremity of the lake, our course was again discovered. It commenced with a wild rapid of about thirty feet fall, and this we found to be followed within a distance of twenty miles by seven others, all of which together aggregated a fall of about 120 feet, which took us to the level of Markham Lake, named in honor of Admiral A. H. Markham, R.N.
While traversing this lake a decided change in the climate was observed. For the first time since the early part of the season snow-banks were seen on the hillsides, and the weather, which had been as a rule wet
