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Thursday Oct. 27" 1881. The wind has continued to blow in a gale all day. We slept cold last night. This morning the ice was thick in the water pail and the rocks on the shore have been covered with ice all day. Katahdin is white with snow half way down. A middle aged man came along down the lake through the woods this afternoon and stopped at our camp, a Mr. Weymouth. He has six horses and a number of men wind bound about three miles below here. He is a lumberman and has all these men to pay while they are lying still. He looked anxious. He was a shrewd earnest looking man of perhaps 5 years of age. I asked him to have a lunch and Royal made him a good cup of tea, gave him some hot bread which he was baking, some beans and cold corned beef which he ate with a relish. I enjoyed talking with him and when he left he asked us to stop at his camp if we came near him. The spot where we are encamped is the site of an old lumber camp of 50 years ago at least. We can trace by the decayed and mossy logs the foundations of two buildings nearly 30 ft. long probably the camp and the hovel as they call the stable. The hands that built it are probably all at rest now after their hard work, for lumbering here means hard work and exposure. We are waiting for the wind to cease so as to start for home. I have been away now since the 8" and have not heard a [[?]] and begin to want to get my letters.

Friday 28. The wind has blown again all day but now at evening has ceased. The gale is over undoubtedly and tomorrow I hope we will start homewards. I have had a head ache all day but it has passed off. Have written to Mr. Leycester and last night I wrote to Eastman. Slept comfortably last night and it is not so cold tonight. The two young fellows in charge of the lame horse visited us.