CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
The start.—Unwarranted assumptions.—Our guides and outfit.—Aflimsy wharf.—Railroading of the old days.—Contemptible deceit towarddumb animals.—Commencement of fun on the “Carries.”—Wego into camp.—First night in the wilds, [Page 15]
CHAPTER II.
Moving on.—Pine Stream Falls.—Chesuncook Lake and Farm.—UmbazookusCarry.—A dry ground sleighing party.—Further experiencewith the horse.—A glimpse of desolation.—Chamberlin Lake.—Avision.—Eagle Lake.—Smith Brook.—Haymoak Falls.—TroutStories, [Page 36]
CHAPTER III.
In rough water.—North Twin Stream.—An Indian paddle for future use.—Breezes,blankets, cold and ice.—Spider Lake.—Manifold charmsof camp life.—At work with the traps.—Concerning beaver.—We proclaimour intentions, [Page 60]
CHAPTER IV.
Osgood Carry.—The pack-horse league.—Novel trick in pedestrianism.—Campon Echo Lake.—Hiram tells a story.—Sluicing a dam.—Moreconcerning beaver.—Camp at the Mansungun Lakes, [Page 79]
CHAPTER V.
A vision on the lake.—Nichols’ birch-horn.—A midnight hunt under acold moon.—Calling the moose, [Page 104]
CHAPTER VI.
Decrease of our provisions.—Face to face with starvation.—Sore trials.—Shoeingcanoes.—Through the storm.—We sight the waters of theAroostook.—“Hurrah!” [Page 115]
CHAPTER VII.
Redeemed from starvation.—The first habitation on the Aroostook.—Mr.Botting’s house.—The tourograph astonishes the natives.—Purchasingsupplies at Masardis.—Homeward Bound.—Au Revoir! [Page 131]

Illustrations.

1. SUNRISE ON ECHO LAKE,[Frontispiece.]
2. DEDICATION, Page [4]
3. A BEAVER DAM,[13]
4. INITIAL “O,”—LEAVING MOOSEHEAD LAKE, [16]
5. OUR GUIDES,[22]
6. A SERIO-COMIC, [28]
7. THE FIRST CAMP,[31]
8. THE BEST MAN TO WIN, [33]
9. NIGHT ON THE WEST BRANCH,[35]
10. INITIAL “B,”[36]
11. CHESUNCOOK LAKE,[37]
12. CHESUNCOOK FARM,[38]
13. UMBAZOOKUS STREAM,[41]
14. PORTAGE,[43]
15. OUTLET OF CHAMBERLIN LAKE,[47]
16. CHAMBERLIN FARM,[49]
17. FACETIÆ,[50]
18. HAYMOAK FALLS,[52]
19. GOOD SPORT,[56]
20. THE DOG,[59]
21. INITIAL “E,”[60]
22. A COLD WAVE,[63]
23. LOW—THE POOR INDIAN,[65]
24. DEVELOPING A PLATE,[66]
25. “TREES PILED ON TREES,”[68]
26. TWILIGHT IN THE WILDS,[72]
27. EVACUATION,[73]
28. “ON TO THE AROOSTOOK,”[78]
29. INITIAL “I,”[79]
30. THE PACK-HORSE LEAGUE,[82]
31. AT NIGHT BY THE CAMP FIRE,[84]
32. “BY DINT O’ PUSHIN’ AN’ HAULIN’”—[87]
33.“FOLLERIN’ HIS SLOAT—HALLOO!”[91]
34.“BEAT HIM LIKE AN OLD CARPET,” [93]
35. “SAT ALL NIGHT WATCHIN’ IT BURN DOWN,”[94]
36. BEAVER DAM—FOUR FEET HIGH—ONE HUNDRED FEET WIDE, [96]
37. SLUICING A DAM,[98]
38. CHASE BROOK, [101]
39. ODDS AND ENDS,[103]
40. INITIAL “T,” [104]
41. “MOOSE? YOU DON’T SAY SO!”[105]
42. “OH, SUCH A PAIR OF HORNS!” [106]
43. THE DECOY,[109]
44. CALLING THE MOOSE, [112]
45. MOONLIGHT ON THE LAKE, [114]
46. INITIAL “A,”[115]
47. SHOEING CANOES, [117]
48. “WOULDN’T TAKE FIFTY DOLLARS FOR IT,”[119]
49. MANSUNGUN DEADWATER,[121]
50. A SKY PICTURE,[123]
51. A TWELVE MILE “DRAG,”[125]
52. FROM THE DRY TO THE WET PROCESS,[128]
53. CAMP ON THE AROOSTOOK RIVER,[130]
54. INITIAL “W,”[131]
55. A WAITING BREAKFAST,[132]
56. THE FIRST HOUSE ON THE AROOSTOOK RIVER,[134]
57. “CAN YOU GET UP A DINNER FOR THE CROWD?”[137]
58. BIRD-TRAPPING MADE EASY,[139]
59. “SEVENTY SUMMERS,”[140]
60. A PEEP AT THE STRANGERS,[141]
61. PRESQUE ISLE—CIVILIZATION IN FOCUS—[144]
62. VALEDICTORY,[146]
63. FINIS,[148]

Introduction.

On page 31 of Canoe and Camera I made the following foot-note, in mentioning the fourth tour from Moosehead Lake through the Maine Wilderness: “Still another trip can be made from Churchill Lake through Spider, Echo and Mansungun Lakes to the waters of the Aroostook, leaving the woods at Caribou, Maine. But the scenery is uninteresting, and the difficulties will not compensate one for the labor endured, while woe betide the tourist if the water is low.”

I little imagined, as I penned this paragraph from hearsay, that the following season I should so thoroughly acquaint myself with its “difficulties,” and learn from actual experience the beauties of its scenery.

Yet, in the autumn of 1880, while putting in order my well-worn camp equipage with no definite plan in view, a letter from my friend and fellow traveller, Colonel G., gave this fortunate direction to my fall trip. This letter informed me that the year previous he had discovered a region unknown to the sportsman and tourist, yet accessible by canoe from Moosehead Lake, and was rejoicing in the title of the “Pioneer of the Aroostook.” I could not, therefore, be the first to explore this route, and so, accepting second honors, began immediate preparations for the trip.

The oldest inhabitants of Maine may have known a drier season than that of 1880, but the reader will perceive in the following pages that a cart, rather than a canoe, might have been used in the exploration of the greater portion of this unknown region.

The Author.
Hartford, Conn., 1881.