They hailed us gayly, and rowed ashore to show us what fine booty they had.

No disappointment there, no dull work.
On the beautiful point of land from which we first saw them lived a contented woman, the only one I heard of out there.

She was English, and said she had seen so much suffering in her own country, that the hardships of this seemed as nothing to her.

But the others--even our sweet and gentle hostess--found their labors disproportioned to their strength, if not to their patience; and, while their husbands and brothers enjoyed the country in hunting or fishing, they found themselves confined to a comfortless and laborious in-door life.

But it need not be so long.
This afternoon, driving about on the banks of these lakes, we found the scene all of one kind of loveliness; wide, graceful woods, and then these fine sheets of water, with, fine points of land jutting out boldly into them.