So many questions  . . .

It's not hard to guess that they presumably enter at Nym and head south.  20 miles would get them to Jesse and be relatively consistent with the portage description.  Maybe they get into Oriana & Walter.  Things still don't match up with the travel description further down in the story.  The number of fish caught is simply delusion and embellishment.

I love this line . . .


Quote:

Riley latches onto a northern pike at least 40 inches long and broad across the back. He plays it to the canoe, where he suggests that his partner, Christensen, land it for him. Christensen reaches for the pike, then thinks better of it. “That’s not safe,” he says, staring down the maw of the pike.

And this one


Quote:

We keep no walleyes for supper that night because we’ve packed rice and Polish sausage. But the pot it’s cooking in falls off the small campstove, emptying our supper into the forest duff. We improvise a dinner of grilled cheese sandwiches, salvaging some of the rice dish, now garnished with jackpine needles.

I know I would prefer polish sausage over fresh walleye.

;D  ;D  ;D