Steaming Up the Lake

by 7 o'clock next morning, with [unclear: the] smooth and the sir deliciously [unclear: balmy] ing the wooded peninsula previously [unclear: g] to, with the upper portion of the [unclear: M] disclosing; itself over the [unclear: intervening] forest, and the granite slopes of [unclear: Titi] ing boldly to the sky at our left, [unclear: we] round the point towards which we [unclear: h] steaming, and the beauties of [unclear: Mana] close themselves to our [unclear: admiring] Beautiful islands stud the lake, [unclear: bush] the water's edge to their very [unclear: tops] precipitous siden are an unbroken [unclear: e] beech forest, relieved by occasional [unclear: p] with brilliant patches of rata [unclear: at] intervals enhancing their beauty [unclear: and] us ask ourselves why we had lived [unclear: for] years within easy reach of such a [unclear: proli] of Nature's grandeur and beauty [unclear: and] our opportunities. We steam [unclear: on] amid such scenes, passing arms [unclear: and] page 7 [unclear: tions] of the lake, each possessing some point [unclear: of] interest, and about middsy we approach the [unclear: rth] arm, the head of which it to be our [unclear: horage] and landing place for lunch and an [unclear: hour] or two's enjoyment in the bush before our return. As we approach the north arm, which is a few miles from the head of the lake, the snow-clad peaks ahead of us are pointed cut and named by Mr Dore. There, for example, is Leaning Park, up a valley to the right which, and about five miles from the hed of the lake, was situated the fateful camp from which poor Mainwaring Brown wandered [unclear: I] that memorable day in Decembers 1888, [unclear: and] was lost to human ken for ever other giant snow-clad peaks rear their heads in the loneliness of this far-distant western sky, [unclear: and] the whole scene is one which arouses feeling and emotions entirety unknown to us in our ordinary everyday life. I need not attempt to merate or describe these giants of the mountain chain which separate the valleys and rivers and sonuds of the western watershed from the lakes and lands we have been traversing has been done by other hands, and those who are interested can get fuller information as to their peculiar features from the [unclear: ed] records.