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talk until the two men returned who went back after the provisions the day before and finally we slept. The moon shone with a mild splendor when I awoke about ten o'clock but I observed a film coming across her disk and this morning it rains with the wind from N.E. which indicated that it has "set in". We are dry in camp but very wet outside. the guides go about like ducks. I hear them chopping in the dripping woods. The campfire burns sullenly and the black flies bite sharply. I slept last night without a blanket over me and I imagine it must have been warm with you. This afternoon three of us went pickerel fishing down the lake at the mouth of Flood brook where we caught 12 of them in a short time 22 inches long, most voracious fellows who bit off

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After breakfast Will and I took a birch and went up sandy stream a mile or so to try the trout but the wind blew too hard and we returned for dinner. Since then I have done some walking and written this. Two of our men have gone back to the dam 20 miles for the balance of our stores and will be gone two days. This lake is six miles long with many low islands and fine sand beaches, and Katahdin showing from almost every part of it. We are encamped in a delightful spot. Not a very fine view of the mountain but so pleasant with the sandy shore and the pine and birch forest behind it that we feel as though we could stay here a long time. The men have built us a new camp, a very neat and comfortable one and we shall occupy it tonight. There are a good many black flies and the weather is warm for this