NEW BRUNSWICK. I35 
his reddened visage and illuminating his many graceful 
attitudes. With rapid motion he swung the spear from 
side to side as any passing object attracted his attention, 
ready for the death-dealing blow. With perfect facility 
he kept command of the boat, shoving her bow from the 
rocks and guiding it through the proper channel ; occa- 
sionally the spear was sent glancing through the water, 
and in a moment a grilse brought struggling to the sur- 
face and thrown into the bottom of the canoe, where the 
fire rays were reflected from his scales like the liquid 
gleam of the diamond. 
It was a picturesque sight, the waving flame, the 
active spearsman, the graceful canoe, and the intense 
darkness around ; but it was cruel and barbarous, and 
my friend desisted before many fish had suffered. 
[N'ext day returned us safe and sound to Wilson's hos- 
pitable log mansion, where a hearty welcome awaited 
us. Our extra stores were divided among the men, a 
farewell S]3oken, the team once more harnessed, and we 
set out to join the stage at Boiestowm for Chatham, on 
the road to the Nipisiquit. 
A strange place is Boiestown ; built by an American 
named Boies, it is a mere collection of unpainted sliantj^- 
like houses but with Yankee shrewdness, located upon 
a fine stream of never-failing water, with excellent mills 
and water power, it might have been a thriving place 
had not Boies, its presiding spirit, met with reverses. 
The maelstrom of lumber speculation had ingulfed him, 
and with him the prosperity of the tovm. There was no 
native capable of filling his place, and the glory of Boies* 
town had departed. 
