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[[underline]] April 11 [[/underline]] - Mr. Jopling & Mr. Doty [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough] went to Munising yesterday & will not return until this P.M. , so I have the Peter White camp to myself with only two men & a good cook to look after my comfort.
After a good breakfast including freshly made maple syrup on beautifully browned cakes Jim & I took a lunch and started up the lake and river. This is the Laughing Whitefish Lake where Shiras has taken most of his photographs of deer, a small lake about a mile long winding thro magnificent forest of hemlock, white pine and cedar, fir, birch, maple birch and ironwood. It is wooded down to the shores except at the ends where there is some marshy and flat land & alder swamps. We followed up the lake on good snowshoeing,

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