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Saturday Oct. 29. 1881. We were up long before day light making our preparations for a start and got away before 8 oclock. It was a fine still morning but cold. Just below our camp we met Mr. Weymouth coming up the lake in a great raft loaded with stores, men and six horses. They stopped and took on board the sick horse. We had a most successful run to the carry where we got a team and got over about 4 o clock. Found a lot of letters there, three from home, all well and happy. One of them contained a telegram from Chicago telling me my picture "Autumn Woods" was sold for $1000, which is very satisfactory. There was a great circle about the sun all day an [[erly?]] indication of a storm, of snow probably. Went into camp just below Fowlers  not much snow and it has begun to rain gently. Last night out so we dont worry. Have had a good time reading my letters one long one from Lucy enclosing one from Capt Porter who is down in the Indian campaign in Arizona-

Sunday 30. Still raining gently when we awoke. Had breakfast leisurely about 9. A man from the logging camp about a half a mile below came to see us. He was a friend of Royals and he had him stay until we left to help him "lug" down the things to his birch, when we took him in and went down to the lumber camp where Royal left some of his load with him. The camp was in the woods and the men were all inside chewing gum and making little barrels from birch in which they put spruce gum and send