The scenery amid which we passed was wild in the extreme.  Not a sign of a human being, or a habitation of any sort, was visible.  Sometimes dark rocks rose up in precipitous cliffs on both sides of us, and at other times the trees of the forest overhung the water.  We had several portages to make, as it was easier to carry the canoes over the land than to drag them up the rapids, but Kakaik signified that on our return we might shoot them without danger.