mily a couple of large tents
were sent on and pitched by some Indians. The various utensils and
supplies necessary for a good time were also forwarded, so that when Mr
and Mrs Ross, with Minnehaha, Wenonah, Roderick, and our three lads,
arrived they found everything arranged for their comfort.

It was an ideal place for an outing. Before them was the great river
with the music of its rushing, roaring rapids, down which it was so
exciting to run in the canoes under the skillful guidance of the
cautious, experienced Indians. The great granite rocks in picturesque
beauty were everywhere to be seen. Back of the sandy beach and grassy
sward, where stood the tents and camp fires, was the deep, dark,
unbroken forest, that stretched away and away for hundreds of miles.

So delightful were the surroundings, and so good the fishing, as well as
novel and interesting this running the rapids, that two or three days
were thus spent ere any definite arrangements about the cranberry
picking was thought of.

To aid in gathering a large quantity of berries Mrs Ross had engaged a
number of Indian women, who were famous as noted berry pickers. These
women brought with them a large Indian vessel called a "rogan." It is
made out of birch-bark, and is capable of holding about twenty quarts of
berries.

There are two kinds of cranberries in this land. One is called the
high-bush variety, while the other is known as the moss cranberry, as it
is generally found where moss is abundant, and grows on a small vine on
the ground. It was this latter kind that here abounded and that they
had come to gather.

As the outing was not merely for the purpose of gathering berries, they
did not pick very steadily. Mrs Ross well knew that her faithful
Indian women would see that she had her full supply. So the members of
the family picked berries, went fishing or hunting or canoeing, more or
less frequently, as their inclinations prompted them. Several days thus
passed in varied sport and work.

One evening as the Indian women came in with their heavy loads they
reported finding, not very far distant, a splendid place, where the
berries were very plentiful, and the ground dry and mossy and free from
muskegs and rocks. So it was decided that, with the exception of some
of the servants, who would remain and take care of the camp, all should
go and have a big day of it at berry picking, and then they would make
their arrangements for returning h